How to Make a Telegram Sticker Pack
With a Real Transparent Background

The pain point

You're building a sticker pack to submit through Telegram's @Stickers bot — maybe from a looping GIF, a clip from a video, or original art. Telegram checks the canvas size and transparency of every file you send it, and it's easy to submit something that looks right in a preview but gets rejected: wrong dimensions, a background that isn't real alpha, or a video sticker that isn't actually in the format @Stickers expects.

Why common solutions fall short

• Non-square or wrong-size canvas. Telegram requires one dimension to be exactly 512px with the other no larger than 512px. A generic background remover just hands back your source resolution — a 720×480 GIF frame, say — which then needs a separate resize step that can soften the cutout edge.
• Fake transparency. A background "removed" by painting it a solid color that only reads as transparent in a preview checkerboard will upload as an opaque block in Telegram, not disappear behind the chat background.
• Wrong format for video stickers. Telegram's video stickers are WEBM, not a re-encoded GIF or MP4 with the background painted out. Submitting the wrong container format is a common, easy-to-miss rejection reason separate from the transparency issue.

What actually fixes it

RemoveGifBG has a Telegram Sticker preset (512×512) in the output-dimensions dropdown, so the canvas is correct before you export — no separate resize pass. Output formats include transparent PNG for static stickers and WebM for video stickers, so you can go straight from source GIF/video to a file @Stickers will accept.

Run your source clip through once, pick the Telegram preset and the output format that matches whether you're submitting a static or video sticker, and download a file sized and formatted for direct submission.

Make a Telegram Sticker — Free

See also: WeChat sticker guide · LINE sticker guide