Using stickers or emotion icons in chats and conversation through WeChat on mobile is a lot of fun. WeChat offers plenty of stickers you can use for free. You can also download extra stickers to WeChat or buy premium sticker packages to WeChat. Today, we will discuss how you can add custom stickers to WeChat for Android, use your own photos as WeChat stickers, transfer custom sticker from computer to WeChat on mobile phone. If you are using WeChat on iPhone, we have this adding custom stickers to WeChat for iPhone guide for you. The process of adding stickers to WeChat for Android users differs slightly in appearance.
How to add custom stickers to WeChat for Android?
Run WeChat on your Android phone. Switch to the Chats tab if it does not open automatically. Then open any chat or conversation in WeChat Chats tab. Tab on the Sticker icon besides the chat message input box. This will bring up the stickers selection at the lower section of your mobile phone screen.
Tap the gear Settings icon, you will then open the My Sticker screen. Choose Custom to manage your custom WeChat stickers.
Now you can see all your existing custom stickers for WeChat in this Custom Stickers screen on Android phone. At the end of your stickers, you can find the + Add button. Tap on it to take a new photo and add it as your WeChat sticker or choose existing photos from Gallery and add them to WeChat as stickers.
How to add custom stickers to chats in WeChat for Android?
To use custom stickers in chats or conversations is easy. Open the Chats tab in WeChat, select any chat, then touch the sticker icon, switch to the Favorite tab of Stickers, you can then find all your added custom stickers on the phone. Just select any custom stickers from there and add them to your chats in WeChat on Android mobile phone.
Make custom WeChat stickers on computer
If you use your existing photos as stickers in WeChat, you will find WeChat will automatically resize and compress the source picture files according to their own standards and requirements. This however may reduce the sticker quality, make the stickers too small to be recognized. To make better stickers for WeChat, you can export your pictures from mobile phone to computer and use a photo editor to make more good-looking stickers. Generally speaking you may consider to crop the WeChat stickers to square, with a resolution less than 300*300p; if possible make the background transparent so your stickers will look more professional. You may also consider to convert source pictures to GIF as this is the best WeChat sticker file format. Check out this link to learn how to change image file format in Windows 10. Following this linked guide, you can convert photos from PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP and more to GIF in just a few seconds and best of all, it is totally free. You will be able to directly save GIF images to WeChat stickers too. Other than these, GIF is actually a set of animated photo slides, you can create dynamic stickers for WeChat through GIF.
Transfer WeChat stickers from computer to Android phone
Once you have made your own stickers on computer, you need to transfer them back to the phone so you can save custom stickers to WeChat app and use them in chats and conversation in the future. There are different ways you can copy image and other files from computer to Android phone. You can connect up your device to PC or Mac using its USB data cord and copy the sticker files over to your phone. This is the most straightforward method. You can also exchange data between mobile and computer through Bluetooth. Check out this guide to transfer photos, video, music between Samsung mobile and Windows 10 PC via Bluetooth. The easiest way to transfer stickers from computer to WeChat on mobile phone is to make use of the WeChat for Web.
You can refer to this tutorial to use WeChat on PC and Mac computer. Basically you need to open WeChat for web address in your web browser, then use WeChat for Android to scan QR code on the phone, after that you will be logged in the same WeChat account on both Android phone and PC. There will be a File Transfer Assistant you can find in WeChat for web. You can send images, text, photos, videos, music to this File Transfer Assistant, then go to your mobile phone and download these files on to your phone.
Open the chat with this File Transfer for WeChat on Android phone, long press the stickers you have received from computer, then a pop-up menu shows up. Choose “Add sticker” item from the menu to add selected sticker to WeChat on Android mobile.