How to create sticker images
Stickers are small background-less images that users can use, for example, to react in a conversation or to decorate their profile page:
The Photoroom API makes it easy to add this feature to your app.
Here's a before/after example of the kind of high-quality sticker the API can create:
There are two different ways to create a sticker through the Photoroom API, depending on whether the image you want to process is stored locally (in a file or a temporary variable) or hosted remotely.
Case 1: the orginal image is stored locally
If the image you want to process is stored locally, you can turn it into a sticker by calling our Remove Background API.
Here's how the call looks like:
If you don't have an API key, here are the steps to create yours.
Notice how, additionally to sending the image_file
, we also set the argument crop=true
.
As its name suggests, this argument crops the size of the result image to that of the cutout subject.
Case 2: the original image is hosted remotely
If the image you want to process is stored remotely, you can turn it into a sticker using the Image Editing API.
Here's how the call looks like:
If you don't have an API key, here are the steps to create yours.
Notice how the URL of the image is passed through the query string argument imageUrl
.
This URL must be accessible publicly over the Internet.
Make sure to URL encode the value you set for the argument imageUrl
.
Conclusion
As we’ve seen, the Photoroom API makes it easy to create high-quality stickers, whether the image that you want process is stored locally or remotely.
Please note that there's no difference in quality between the two approaches: both will yield the exact same cutout of the subject.
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