Instagram is always looking for ways to improve the platform, and the company recently made some changes. One change the company has introduced will make your posts and stories much better. According to the company, Instagram will let you create 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 whether images sent via DM contain any 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 create custom stickers
When creating your latest reel or story, you have the option to add stickers. Stickers are small illustrations that you can add to the content and spice it up a bit. They act like larger and more detailed emojis, and can be drawings of almost anything, from locations to celebrities to characters, etc.
The number of stickers is constantly growing. However, if you want the ability to create your own, Instagram now allows you to do so. The application allows you to create your own stickers by cutting subjects from images. You will then be able to use these items as stickers in your reels or stories. The company’s press release referred to “acceptable photos.” So, you may not be able to use any Instagram photo.
Something nice to note is the fact that you can actually extract subjects from videos as well. If you take a sticker from the video, it will be animated.
We’ll have to wait and see how this feature works. Since you can only use it with eligible photos, there may be an opt-in option that will allow other people to use your photos as stickers. Anyway, this is a very nice feature.