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Instagram is always looking for ways to make the platform better, and the company recently brought some changes. One change that the company introduced will make your posts and Stories that much better. According to the company, Instagram will allow you to make custom and animated stickers.
This story comes right after Instagram announced that any DM containing nudity will be blurred. The company will use artificial intelligence to detect if images sent through DMs contain any sort of nudity. This is to help people avoid being abused by receiving random sexually explicit photos. It aims to make Instagram’s DMS a safer place.
Instagram now lets you make custom stickers
When you are making your latest Reel or Story, you have the option to add stickers. Stickers are small illustrations that you can add to content and spice it up a bit. They act as larger and more detailed emojis, and they can be drawings of pretty much anything from locations to celebrities to characters Etc.
The number of stickers is always growing. However, if you want the ability to create your own, Instagram now allows you to. The app allows you to create your own stickers by cutting out subjects from images. You will then be able to use those subjects as stickers in your reels or stories. The company press release referred to “eligible photos.” So, you may not be able to use just any Instagram photo.
Something that’s neat to note is the fact that you’re actually able to extract subjects from videos as well. If you take a sticker from a video, it will be animated.
We will have to wait to see how this feature works. Since you are only able to use it with eligible photos, there may be an opt-in option that will let other people use your photos as stickers. In any case, this is a very neat feature.