How to make Telegram stickers

Create a sticker for Telegram

The first step for make Telegram stickers is to prepare the image of your interest which, subsequently, will have to be uploaded to the famous messaging service using a special bot.

Before you get started, however, it will be useful to know that the image to use as a sticker must be in PNG format with a transparent background and must have one side of the size equal to 512px and another side of dimensions equal to or less than 512px. My advice, as a matter of convenience, is to create your computer image using a program like GIMP, available for free for Windows and macOS. In that regard, my guide on how to download GIMP may be useful.

To create your image from scratch, start the program just mentioned, click on the item Fillet in the top menu and select the option New, then enter 512 In fields Width e Height e pulsing sul pulsating OK to access the GIMP workspace. Then use the tools in the left bar to create your image and, once your work is finished, click on the items Fillet ed Export as to save the file in PNG format. To learn more, I leave you to my guide on how to use GIMP.

If, on the other hand, you have downloaded an image from the Internet and you want to set the transparency and the suitable size to create a sticker for Telegram, start GIMP, click on the options Fillet e apri and select the image to edit. Now, select the Image option in the top menu, click on the item Image scale, insert 512 In fields Width e Height e pulsing sul pulsating Ladder. This procedure is valid if the original image is square and with each side larger than 512px. If not, I recommend that you crop the image first and then use the function Image scale. In that regard, my guides on how to edit photos with GIMP and how to resize an image with GIMP may be useful to you.

Finally, to set the transparency, click on the entry Subscription and choose your options Transparency e Add alpha layer, then select the tool a free hand (l'icona della rope) and select the subject of your interest. Now, click on the tool rectangular selection (l'icona del square) from the toolbar, click on the item Selection, scegli l'opzione Invert and delete the selected portion of the image using the keyboard commands Ctrl + x on Windows and cmd + x on Mac. Finally, click on the items Select e Nothing, export the image and that's it. For the detailed procedure I leave you to my guides on how to make the background of an image transparent and how to cut out an image.

Alternatively, if you want to make things easier, you can use Remove BG, an online service that allows you to remove the background from images with just a few clicks. To use this free service, connected to its official website, click on the button Select a photo (or sull'opzione Enter a URL if your image is online) and select the image of your interest. Wait for the processing of the latter and press the button Download to download the edited photo to your computer.

Upload a Telegram sticker from smartphones and tablets

 upload a Telegram sticker from smartphones and tablets using the application for Android and iOS devices, start the latter by pressing on its icon (thepaper airplane on heavenly background) on the home screen of your device and add the bot Stickers.

If you have a smartphone or tablet equipped with Android, fai tap sull'icona della magnifying glass top right, write @stickers in the field Search and tap his name appeared in the search results. If, on the other hand, you have a iPhone / iPad, select the option Chat present in the menu below, type @stickers in the field Search for messages or users at the top do tap sul muzzle in question to start the chat.

Now, regardless of the device you use, press the button starts to view the list of bot commands, useful for interacting with it and creating new stickers. Then type the command / Newpack to create a new sticker pack, enter its name in the field Message below and send the image created earlier as an attachment. Then press the icon of clip, select the voice Fillet and choose the image to turn into a sticker.

Once the file has been uploaded, if everything went well, you will see the message Thank you! Now send me an emoji that matches your first sticker. Then access the list of emojis, select the one you are interested in and tap on the icon of thepaper airplane (l'icona della arrow on iPhone) to send it.

Now, repeat the above procedure to add new stickers to the selected package, otherwise type the command / publish, enter, in the field Message, a unique name to be given to the package and sends the message to publish the stickers contained in it. If everything went well, you will see the writing Kaboom! I just released your sticker pack and the link to view it. To add the newly created sticker to the list of your stickers on Telegram, tap on the link shown on the screen and press the button Add [number] sticker.

It will be useful to know that it is possible to add a new sticker to an existing package. If so, type the command / addstickers (instead of / Newpack), select the package of your interest and upload the image to be transformed into a sticker by repeating the procedure described above for adding a sticker to a new package.

If you want to delete a stricker from a package, type the command / delstickerselect il package which contains the image of your interest and proceed with the cancellation by pressing the button Delete. To delete a package, instead, enter the command / delpack, do tap sul package to delete and write Yes I'm sure. in the field Message to confirm your intention.

Upload a Telegram sticker from your computer

It was preferred upload a Telegram sticker from your computer, you need to know that you can do this either by using the official Telegram client installed on your PC that Telegram Web, the Web version of the famous messaging service. In both cases, the procedure is almost identical to that described above for adding a sticker from smartphones and tablets

To proceed, start the Telegram client or connect to the official Telegram Web site, type @stickers in the field Search at the top right and click on the entry Stickers (should be the first result) to add the Telegram bot dedicated to strickers.

Pigia, quindi, sul pulsating starts and type the command / Newpack to upload a sticker by creating a new package or command / addstickers to add a sticker to a previously created package. In the first case, enter the name to be assigned to the package in the field write a message and premium tasto Submit keypad to confirm. If, on the other hand, you have chosen to add the sticker to an existing package, select the latter by clicking on name of one of the packages visible below.

Now, click on the icon of clip, select the voice Fillet from the menu that appears and choose the image you have previously prepared. Then click on thepaper airplane to start loading the sticker, then press the icon smiling face, select the voice Emoji, choose an emoji to associate with your sticker and click on it.

To finish adding the sticker, type the command / publish and, if you have created a new package, enter a short name for it in the field write a message. Then click on the link shown on the screen, presses the button Add [number] sticker to add the created stricker to the list of your stickers on Telegram and that's it.

How to make Telegram stickers