Stickers are used not only to transmit emotions in an online conversation. Creating personal, recognizable stickers - a powerful stroke in terms of marketing. They revive any conversation and make their creator recognizable. But what should I do if there is no great experience in using photoshop? It is not necessary to create stickers in the telegram at all.
What are the stickers?
Stickers are extremely important for the audience, so they are often used to promote their own goods or acquiring a certain reputation. New sets are often postponed not only by certain dates dedicated to holidays, but also without reason.
- Compass stickers. During communication with colleagues, family or simply, friends often arise for jokes, understandable only to the collective assembled. Stickers drawn based on similar jokes will dilute the atmosphere of the conversation. Also, often as stickers use photos of participants with ridiculous or simply coroned phrases.
- Advertising. Companies promoting their product online, use stickers as advertising goods. They are played through promotional codes on the cover of goods, give a certain lucky luck among buyers and so on. Also stickers can urge to take advantage of products or visit the company's website.
- Branded. Stickers usually include branded elements that make them recognizable. These can be certain colors, images or slogans.
- Emotional. To stickers acquired popularity and gave them to each other, they make them diverse. In addition to beauty, they certainly transmit a certain emotion or carry a certain promise. In addition, they serve as an indicator of the state of the sender, demonstrating its employment, fatigue, and so on.
- Laconic. The single style and minimum of the details are, which makes stickerpaca recognizable. Many things in the drawing of stickers remain conditional - wrinkles, folds or shadows. Artists seek to reflect the main idea without resorting to a set of small details.
Ways to create stickers
Stickers can be drawn or made in photoshop of photos. Their creation requires a certain skill, but it is even a newcomer.
Stickers from photos
To create stickers from photos, you need photoshop, photos and inscriptions or symbols that will decorate stickers.
- First, create a file with a resolution of 500x500, while when creating is not chose not dark or white background, but transparent. Since stickers less than 500 pixels cannot be downloaded to telegrams, experienced artists are recommended when creating adding 12 pixels to each side of the working field. This is necessary in order for the drawing to be guaranteed not less than permissible size.
- The working field opens the picture and the "fast allocation" allocate the desired part of the photo. On the selected image, click on the right mouse button and the "Selection and Mask" subparagraph is selected in the dropping menu. She smoothes torn edges of the drawing, making it clearer.
- The selected part of the photo is copied to a new layer and switched to it. The image is reduced by "moving", following it does not distort the horizontal or vertical.
- Then in the "Overlay parameters" paragraphs select "Stroke" and "Shadow" items, shifted sliders in such a way that the sticker stands out on a white background. After that, the inscription is attached to it, copying it to a new layer or typing right over the sticker. To do this, click on the "T" key and using the "Text" tool in the selected field they write the desired phrase. Then it will be reduced and distinguished as a photo.
- Saving the final result is chosen by PNG format. In the telegram using the Stickkers Bot tool create a new set. In the bottle dialog box, they write "/ Start" and follow the instructions sent. Bot offers to create a new set of stickers and give it a name, then asks the file with a sticker and offers to choose the smiley to which a particular sticker will be tied.
- In response, except for the image and emoticon, it is written by a URL, while going to which you can download a set. Experienced artists recommend the first to use the most common smiles and the best pictures, as they will become a "cover" stickerpaca.
Stickers from pictures
People who first took a pencil in hand, recommended to order drawings of stickers from professional artists. If acquaintance with drawing is not superficial, then most often draw stickers personally.
- Before the start of the manufacture of stickers paint their references. At this stage, already available kits are used as inspiration, since they are capable of telling how it is better to transfer you or other emotion.
- The resulting sketch is photographed, scan or retain if it was done in a graphic editor. Then, in Photoshop or Korele, create a suitable file. The sketch is dragged into it and create a new layer.
With the help of "Feather" and "Figures", they drive out the sketch and secure this layer by clicking on the lock mark above it. - You can add details or vice versa to the resulting sketch at this stage - to simplify it by making it more concise.
In the new layer in advance selected colors paint the future sticker. Shadows and glare on the sticker are drawn all the same tools with which it was requested. Both are made on new layers. - Then returned to the layer with the stroke and the "Object" menu create a new circuit that is copied to a new layer. After that, the sticker is retained in the same format that was used in the case of a photo and with the help of a bot telegram inserted into a new stickerpak.
Creating stickers does not require specific knowledge or preparation. It is enough just to spend five minutes in Photoshop and deal with the work of the bot in the telegram to get a unique stickerpak.