Instagram’s Cutouts feature lets you turn any photo or video, as well as Instagram posts, into a reusable sticker for your stories and reels. Here’s everything you need to know about the Cutouts feature on Instagram, including how it works and how you can use it.

What Is Instagram’s Cutouts Feature?

The Cutouts feature on Instagram allows you to create unique stickers by automatically cutting out objects or people from photos. It lets you generate stickers from photos saved in your phone’s gallery as well as from someone else’s Instagram posts.

Additionally, this feature also works with videos, allowing you to create animated stickers of moving objects or people from video clips. you’re able to use these custom stickers in your Instagram stories and reels to make them more engaging and unique.

How to Make a Sticker From Your Own Photos With Cutouts

Instagram’s Cutouts feature can come in handy if your Android or iPhone lacks the ability tocreate stickers from photos. You may need to grant Instagram access to your phone’s gallery if you haven’t already.

Instagram’s Cutouts feature is now widely available. If you don’t see it on your phone, ensure that youupdate the Instagram app.

To create a sticker from a photo on your phone:

While you may use the Cutouts feature to create animated stickers from a video clip on your phone, the quality of these animated stickers may not match that of those made from photos. During our testing, we found that the Cutouts feature often struggled to automatically select objects, and even when it did, the resulting quality wasn’t great.

How to Make a Sticker From Someone Else’s Instagram Post

Instagram’s Cutouts feature also works with photos posted on public accounts on Instagram, as long as the user hasn’t disabled the ability to create cutouts from their posts.

To create stickers from photos posted on public Instagram accounts:

Once you have created the sticker, you will find it in the “Your stickers” section while creating a story or reel. It’s important to note that if the original poster removes the post from which you created the sticker, the cutout sticker will also be removed.

How to Delete Old Stickers

Once you create a sticker using the Cutouts feature, it remains available for reuse. That said, you can delete stickers that you no longer intend to use. Here’s how:

And that’s everything you need to do to start using Instagram’s Cutouts feature. Use this feature to your advantage andmake your Instagram posts stand out from the rest.