Not every sticker has to move. A friend’s face mid-laugh, your cat looking unimpressed, a screenshot of a perfect reply: a still sticker made from a photo is often the one that gets sent the most.
Make it
- Open tosticker.com, tap Choose a file and pick a photo (JPG, PNG or WebP).
- In the Cutout tab, turn on Remove background to keep only the person, pet or thing.
- Pick an edge and its colour, and add a drop shadow if you like.
- Add a caption in the Text tab, and crop or zoom in the Frame tab.
- Tap Make sticker, then press and hold the sticker, tap Copy and paste it into a WhatsApp chat.
A photo skips the Clip tab, because there is nothing to trim. The editor opens on the Text tab instead.
Cut it out
Remove background finds the main subject and drops everything else, right on your phone. The photo is never uploaded. It works best with one clear subject that stands apart from what is behind it. The first time, your phone downloads the cutout model (about 11 MB); after that it is quick. The background guide has tips for a cleaner cutout.
Give it an edge
A Thin or Thick edge in white, black, yellow, pink or blue makes it look like a real die-cut sticker. With the background removed, the edge follows the outline of your subject. Drop shadow adds a solid offset shadow that lifts it off the chat.
Frame it
Stickers are square. Fit whole clip keeps the entire photo with see-through space around it; Square crop fills the sticker, and you can zoom in and drag the preview to choose what stays in.
What you get
A 512 × 512 PNG with a see-through background. Pasted into WhatsApp, it arrives as a still sticker. Want it to move? Give the caption an animation in the Text tab (Shake, Bounce, Type…) and the photo becomes a two-second animated sticker. Or start from a video instead; on iPhone you can save a Live Photo as a video from the Photos app first.