They are more diverse than emojis and convey emotions better; WhatsApp stickers offer many more possibilities than regular emoticons. You can even make stickers without leaving the application: WhatsApp introduced its own creation mode a few months ago. Now the beta has been updated for even greater visibility: it’s ready in just a few steps.
The sticker is nothing more than a PNG image with a white frame and a square format. transparent background. You can make stickers from any image editing program, even from your mobile phone. But given the popularity of these stickers in messaging apps, both WhatsApp and Telegram have recently introduced their own editors. It is extremely easy to access this.
WhatsApp adds a shortcut to the sticker creator
Creating our own stickers was not complicated at all, but we had to know that such a possibility existed. Symbol WhatsApp was somehow hidden inside the multimedia selector, so it was time to redesign access. This is exactly what happened in the latest beta.
As discovered by WabetaInfo and as we can see in our own WhatsApp, the Android app highlights the sticker creator with a sign. practical and clearly visible shortcut. This appears just above the stickers section. And he was already separated from those who were saved; so it is perfectly visible.
Once we click on the shortcut the sticker creator will guide us through the process by asking us to select an image from the gallery (best effects, portraits and close-up objects). Once you select the photo, WhatsApp will detect the subject of the image, blank out the background, and apply a white frame to the sticker. We can personalize it with text and drawing on the sticker, this way it will look even better.
With the new button for creating WhatsApp stickers, users will know that this possibility exists and we will have a really fast and easy way to get our own stickers in seconds. This innovation is now active in the beta version of WhatsApp for Android.
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