Sharing Photos With Yahoo! Messenger
| Inviting a Contact to Share Photos | Adding Photos to Share | Changing Your Share Photos Side Panel View | Viewing a Slideshow | Saving Shared Photos |
Adding Photos to Share
Once you have a photo-sharing session in progress, you and your contact can both add photos to the Share Photos side panel. You can add photos from your computer or from your Yahoo! Photos account, if you have one.
Tips:
You can’t share photos while conversing with Windows Live™ Messenger contacts;
the feature isn’t supported.
This page describes only one of the many ways you can
add photos. For more ideas, see the Adding and Removing Shared Photos tutorial.
Here’s How
Open Window Explorer, and locate the photo you want to share.
Tip: If you select Thumbnails from the View menu in Windows Explorer, it displays a thumbnail view of each file in the current folder, making it easier for you to find the photo you want.
Drag the photo you want to share over the Shared Photos side panel of your IM window, and drop it there.
Both you and your contact see the photo at the same time.
Repeat steps 1 and 2 to add more photos.
Tip: You can add multiple photos from a particular folder at the same time by selecting the photos and dragging and dropping them onto the Share Photos side panel together.
A thumbnail image of each shared photo appears under the main photo. A selection bar appears under the selected thumbnail. A slide bar appears under the thumbnails.
What’s Next
You can change your view in the Share Photos side panel to see a different image or to see the same image your contact is viewing.
Words to Know
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
- Slide bar: control that allows you to scroll vertically through the thumbnail images in the Shared Photos side panel.
- Thumbnail: a small version of an image, often linked to a larger version.
- Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.
- Yahoo! Photos: a service that allows you to share your digital photos over the Internet; it even lets you and designated others order prints of shared photos online.