Make your own stickers and emoji packs
What it is
Anyone can make stickers and custom emoji and share them as packs, from a photo in the built-in editor or from artwork uploaded through @Stickers. Custom emoji sit inside text; adaptive ones take the text's color.
How to do it
- In any chat, open the sticker panel from the input field and tap (+).
- Pick a photo: one tap cuts out the object, then add an outline, text, drawings or emoji.
- Send it, or add it to a new or existing set with matching emoji.
- Faster: turn any photo into a sticker in one tap from the media viewer. To… Faster: turn any photo into a sticker in one tap from the media viewer. To rework a sticker or GIF from the panel, press and hold it › Edit.
- For art made elsewhere, the @Stickers Mini App (t.me/stickers?startapp) creates… For art made elsewhere, the @Stickers Mini App (t.me/stickers?startapp) creates and manages sticker and emoji packs, with statistics. In the bot, sending /adaptive while creating an emoji pack makes adaptive emoji.
- Share a pack by sending any sticker from it: one tap adds the set. Each set also has a t.me link.
Watch out
- Static stickers: PNG or WEBP, one side exactly 512 px, the other 512 px or less; emoji exactly 100×100 px.
- Video stickers: WEBM with VP9, no sound, up to 3 seconds and 30 fps, at most 256 KB.
- Animated stickers (TGS): 512×512 px, up to 3 seconds at 60 fps, at most 64 KB.
- Adding and using custom emoji packs takes Premium, except the one pack a group at boost level 4 sets for all members.
With Gem
Gem doesn't make stickers or emoji packs. Nearby: it prepares a 9:16 story picture with a caption, from a post or about your project; tap «Publish story» and Telegram's story editor opens with it.
Sources
- https://core.telegram.org/stickers
- https://telegram.org/blog/sticker-maker
- https://telegram.org/blog/member-tags-disable-sharing-and-more
- https://telegram.org/blog/profile-music-gift-themes