Years ago, when the iMessage Store first debuted, I covered the weightier sticker packs every week in MacStories Weekly, our Club MacStories newsletter. It wasn’t long surpassing I had increasingly sticker packs than Messages could manage. Finding individual sticker packs became a chore, so I gradually stopped using them, except on rare occasions.
One of my favorite categories of sticker apps from those early days was apps that unliable me to make my own stickers from photos. However, the process was too laborious and fiddly to justify making increasingly than a handful of my own stickers.
That’s reverted with the release of Sticker Drop, a DIY sticker megacosm utility for the iPhone that leverages iOS 16’s new subject isolation technology for images. What sets Sticker Waif untied is how easy it is to make and manage your own stickers.
The easiest way to make a sticker is with Sticker Drop’s share extension.
There are multiple ways to make stickers. Perhaps the easiest way is to long-press the subject of a photo and when it’s been selected (look for the shimmery volatility virtually the subject’s outline), stilt and waif it into Sticker Drop. That’s all there is to it.
Another option is to use Sticker Drop’s share extension. Find an image you want to turn into a sticker in your photo library, Files, Safari, or any other app where you can long-press on an image to isolate its subject. Next, tap the Share sawed-off in the edit menu popup whilom the subject of the image, pick the Sticker Waif share extension, and requite your sticker a name. The next time you unshut Messages and segregate the Sticker Waif iMessage app, the sticker you created will be ready to use.
If you want, though, there are plane increasingly ways to create stickers and spare editing options. Stickers can be created inside the Sticker Waif app by picking an image from the new iOS 16 photo picker or pasting an image from the clipboard that you copied from flipside app. Both the share extension and the app moreover offer options to toggle a verge virtually your sticker on or off, set the border’s width and color, and toggle a waif shadow and corner flourish on and off. Also, one touch I like a lot is that stickers can be edited any time, which ways you can quickly save one and go when later to tweak its options.
Editing stickers and organizing them into sticker packs.
Sticker packs are how you organize your creations. If you don’t designate a pack, new stickers get dropped into a Default Sticker Pack, which you can use as a sort of sticker inbox, moving stickers to other packs that you create in the app later. Each pack can have up to 100 stickers, which can be moved between packs in the sticker editor or by long-pressing on a sticker. Long-pressing a sticker moreover offers options to indistinguishable it, a nice way to include a sticker in multiple packs.
Sticker packs come with a custom Quick Squint view that makes it squint like you just picked them up at a store.
Finally, one of my favorite features is that you can share your thoughtfully curated sticker packs with friends. To do so, start with the Increasingly sawed-off in the Sticker Drop’s toolbar. Once you’re in the Edit Sticker Pack view, which moreover lets you name your pack, manage its stickers, and assign an icon, tap the ‘Share sticker pack’ sawed-off to unshut the share sheet and send your pack to someone. Sticker Waif uses a custom .stickerdrop file format that your recipient can preview with Quick Look, download, and use to install your stickers if they have Sticker Waif installed.
Lots of stickers stuff dropped today.
With a soupcon of new tech and a big helping of solid diamond work, Sticker Waif has rekindled my interest in iMessage stickers. The steps for creating stickers are simple, thanks in large part to iOS 16’s new subject isolation technology, but the app goes well vastitude that tomfool trick with a thoughtful suite of features for editing, organizing, and sharing stickers and sticker packs. My one wish is for an iPad version of the app paired with iCloud sync, so I can create and manage stickers on the iPad’s worthier canvas and wangle stickers made on other devices without having to AirDrop them to my iPad.
Subject isolation may have seemed like a strange wing to iOS 16, but with Sticker Drop, we see then that in the hands of a skilled developer, today’s weird API is tomorrow’s clever app.
Sticker Waif is misogynist on the App Store for a one-time payment of $2.99.
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