More stickers for Telegram — good and different! With a smiley rolling towards a brick wall for the old-timers and Among Us characters with Wednesday for the newcomers. With ducks, cats, TV show characters, and corporate designs. In short, more stickers! And if you don’t know where to get them or want to create your own sticker pack, we’ll tell you how to do it.
What is a sticker and a sticker pack?
A sticker is a small image used instead of emoticons or emojis in text. Moreover, a sticker not only conveys mood but also reflects the user's taste. Thus, in Telegram, there are stickers with different characters, memes, photos, and even brands!
A sticker pack is a set of stickers united by one style or theme. For example, there are sticker packs with characters from the TV series "Friends" and "Harry Potter," with cats by Vasya Lozhkin and an electric train. And many, many more.
Stickers appeared in Telegram in 2015. Unlike VK, Viber, and other social networks, here anyone can create their own sticker pack and offer it to other users.
Where to get stickers for Telegram?
Finding stickers is very simple, and there are practically no differences between the mobile and desktop versions of Telegram. It doesn’t matter where you use stickers: in personal messages or in a Telegram channel.
Where are stickers in the mobile version of Telegram?
If you want to add a sticker, click on the sticker icon in the left corner of the message typing bar. Or — click on the smiling smiley icon, then select the sticker icon. Then select the sticker that most accurately reflects your mood. Done!
If there is no sticker that fully matches your mood, add the required word to the search bar — "sad," "fun," "work," "yellow" — and the system will select the available sets. Click "Add" — and choose the sticker you need right now!
Where are stickers in the desktop version of Telegram?
In the text typing field, click on the smiling smiley. After that, a media field will open on the right (if it was closed before). Between "Emojis" and "GIF," there is the "Stickers" tab.
Choose from the opened stickers the one that fits. You can also write in the search bar what stickers with which emotion interest you, and Telegram will instantly offer several sets of stickers. You can add them to your collection — and use them.
Furthermore, stickers can be found in special catalogs, which are abundantly available on the internet. Among them are the Telegram Stickers Catalogue (link: https://combot.org/telegram/stickers), Chpic.su, and others.
How to create stickers for Telegram on Android or computer
But what to do if none of the already existing sticker sets matches your communication style, or if you need an original (including corporate) set of stickers? It’s simple! Download an app — and start creating!
There are many applications where you can make animated or regular stickers. They all operate on the same principle: you upload an image or photo into the app, crop and scale it to the desired size, add text, drawing, or animation, remove the unnecessary background and save it. We will list just a few of the most popular apps.
Sticker Studio
Allows you to use photos from the gallery or take pictures with the camera, crop, scale, make a sticker from a video, import files from Google Drive, or send them there and save.
Sticker Maker
A simple and convenient interface, the ability to cut out necessary parts from a picture and add text — this is what distinguishes Sticker Maker. Moreover, you can join the community, view other users’ work, and showcase your own.
Animated Sticker Maker
One, two, three — and an animated sticker for Telegram is ready! To create it in the app, you can use a single photo or series, add animation to an existing photo. The app allows importing GIFs from GIPHY, adding texts and emotions.
Wemoji
With this app, you can create animated stickers. Just select the necessary image, crop it to the desired shape, remove the background. Then — sort them into separate groups or upload them to Telegram.
Sticker Create
With it, you can create original stickers with various interesting effects. Moreover, this app has a convenient menu.
Mega Sticker Maker
Bright and interesting stickers can be created in this app, and then they are sorted into categories — personal, textual, stickers from search, and others. The app's capabilities are wide-ranging.
Take note!
Before adding a sticker or sticker pack to Telegram, ensure they meet the requirements. The file must be in PNG or *WebP format with a transparent background. The image dimensions should be 512x512 pixels. Also, add a white outline or shadow.
How to add your stickers to Telegram
So, you’ve created your unique sticker pack. Now you just need to add them to Telegram.
This can be done through the official bot @Stikers.
Step 1. Prepare the images for the stickers.
Step 2. Issue a command to the bot — press /newpack. The bot will create a new set, and you will need to give it a name.
The name of the new set should contain words reflecting its theme and helping to find the sticker pack through search.
Step 3. Add stickers to the sticker pack. To do this, send the bot an image, then an emotion it corresponds to. Then add the following smiley with a picture — up to 120 pieces for one set.
Each sticker must have a corresponding smiley. Or even more than one.
Step 4. Once you decide you’ve added all the stickers to the set, send the bot the command /publish and enter a short name for the set. But not too short — at least four characters — and written in Latin letters.
Step 5. Your personal sticker pack is ready! The bot will send you a link to it, and now you can share the sticker pack with friends, colleagues, clients — in general, with everyone you want.
Your sticker pack is ready!
To sum up
Stickers can brightly and easily convey your emotions or attitude towards a particular event, promote your brand, highlight your taste, and even find friends and like-minded people. You can always use ready-made stickers — or create your own. And it’s quite easy to do this. Try it — and it will all work out!
