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Sharing Photos With Yahoo! Messenger

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Changing Your Share Photos Side Panel View

In the Share Photos side panel, below the main photo is a row of thumbnail images of the photos you and your contact are sharing. You can select another photo to view, or you can view the same photo your contact is viewing.

 

Here’s How

  1. The simplest way to view another photo is to click the thumbnail of the image that you want to view.

    Click the thumbnail you want to view.

  2. To view the next photo, click to the right of the slider on the slide bar. Similarly, to view the previous photo, click to the left of the slider.

    Click the slide bar to move to another photo.

  3. To view the photo that your contact is viewing, click the Friend’s View button or the thumbnail next to it.

    Click the Friend's View button or the thumbnail next to it.

  4. If there are a lot of photos in the Share Photos side panel, you can click on the slide bar and drag it in either direction to scroll through the thumbnails.

    Drag the slide bar to view more photos.

 

What’s Next

You can display the shared photos as a slideshow.

 
 
 

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.
  • Slider: the position indicator on a slide bar. You can drag the slider along the slide bar to change the selected thumbnail.
  • Thumbnail: a small version of an image, often linked to a larger version.