What are Discord Emotes?
Discord Emotes are nothing but emojis or emoticons that we can use in our conversations. Users use them in text messages in Discord to make the chat more unique and also to express their emotions in a fun way. Using emojis is very easy. Just click on the ‘emoji’ icon on the right. From the pop-up, simply select the emote you want to send in the chat. But what’s unique about Discord Emotes is that you can create custom emojis and add them to your server. With the help of these custom emotes, your server will definitely have a distinguishable feature.
How to Make Discord Emotes?
Now that we have seen some basics of Discord Emojis, let us now proceed to know how to make Discord Emotes. Using Adobe Photoshop Adobe’s Photoshop is one of the best tools to make Discord Emotes.
Open the Adobe Photoshop application on your computer. Click on ‘File’, then ‘New’. Now, we need to set some basic settings for the final image. Set the resolution to 128 × 128 pixels. Then set the resolution to 72. Finally, make the background contents ‘Transparent’. Now, you can create the Emote from scratch or import an image and customize it. We will see how to make Discord Emote using an image in Photoshop. Click on ‘File’ and then ‘Open’. You can open any image, preferably with a facial expression. Make the ‘Magic Wand’ active. From the Options Bar, click on ‘Select Subject’. Now, go to ‘Window’ and then ‘Layers’. From the bottom of the Layers Panel, click on ‘Add Vector Mask’. This will isolate our subject and also makes the background transparent. You can further isolate the “Face” of the image. First, in the Layer Panel, select the ‘Mask Thumbnail’ option beside the layer thumbnail. What does this do? You can make any content in the image black or white to hide or reveal the content. Use the ‘Lasso Tool’ in Photoshop to select any part and fill it with black using Paint Bucket. Once you edited the image and made the necessary changes, click on Mask Thumbnail and right-click on the image, and then “Apply Layer Mask”. We have to use this image in our Discord Emote template. Click on ‘Select’ and then ‘All’. Next, click on ‘Edit’ and then ‘Copy’. Open the Discord Emote template we created in the beginning and then click on ‘Edit’ and then ‘Paste’. If the image is larger than the resolution we want, you can resize it by selecting ‘Edit’ and then ‘Free Transform’. After finishing everything, click on ‘File’ and then ‘Save As’. Give an appropriate name and don’t forget to choose the file as PNG.
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How to Make Discord Emotes using Other Tools?
Kapwing Discord Emoji Template
Kapwing is a collection of several online tools such as Video Editor, Image Editor, Meme Creator, and many more. There is a simple Discord Emoji maker with a template you can use. You can use transparent images, GIFs, etc. The benefit of the template is that it automatically resizes the image you upload to 128 × 128 pixels.
Emoji.gg
Another popular online tool for making custom emotes is Emoji.gg. You can easily select all the aspects such as Bases, Eyes, Mouth, etc. After customizing your Discord emote, you can download the PNG image.
Other Tools
Emoji Maker MakeEmoji Emotescreator Zmoji Own3d Etsy
How to Add Custom Emotes to Discord?
Before seeing how to add our custom emotes to Discord Server there are some internal errors in discord, we will see who can add custom emojis. Members who are Administrators can provide privileges to certain roles. One such privilege is to “Manage Emojis”. For this, admins of the server can go to Server Settings and click on Roles. Select any role from the list and toggle the ‘Manage Emojis’ option to turn it on. Now, coming back to adding our custom emotes to Discord Server, go to Server Settings and then click on the ‘Emoji’ option. On the right, click on the ‘Upload Emoji’ option. Select the emote you created and upload it. That’s it. You successfully created and uploaded a custom emote to Discord Internal Server. Discord allows up to 50 custom emotes for no-level servers. As you boost your server and unlock higher levels, you can get space for adding more custom emotes.
No Level – 50 Level 1 Server – 100 Custom Emotes Level 2 Server – 150 Custom Emotes Level 3 Server – 250 Custom Emotes
Conclusion
Discord Emotes are a fun and interesting way to make your Server more engaging. Emotes in Discord are nothing but custom emojis or emoticons. They can be either static images or animated GIFs. In this guide, we saw the basics of Discord Emotes. We understood the importance of Discord Emotes. After that, we saw a simple procedure on how to make Discord Emotes in Photoshop. We also listed some popular online tools using which you can make Discord Emotes very easily. Finally, we saw the steps on how to upload the custom Discord Emote we created to our Discord Server. Comment * Name * Email * Website
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