Add a photo to your Skype profile
Do you use Skype to chat, make phone calls and exchange files? Would you like to have your own photo as an ad image? This is how you do it.
Skype is software that enables you to chat, make phone calls and exchange files of all kinds with other Skype users for free. Video telephony is also possible, telephone conferences and chargeable calls to fixed and mobile networks worldwide.
How to set up your Skype profile
- After you get the most current Skype software downloaded, install it. To do this, just follow the instructions.
- While setting up Skype, you can reveal various pieces of information about yourself if you really want to. You can indicate where you live, what you do for a living, which websites you have and much more. You also determine what of it everyone can see in public or whether it is just yours contacts see.
- You can also set an ad image. Some are provided by Skype, but you can also use your own pictures use.
How to put your own photo in your profile
- Open the Skype window and go to "Skype" in the top left, then to "Profile" and then to "Change ad image".
- The webcam window now opens and you can see yourself. You now have two options. On the one hand you can upload a photo from your computer or you can take a current snapshot with the webcam and use this picture.
- To upload from your PC, click on "Browse" and select an image. Here you will be shown the pictures from Skype itself or you can take one of your own.
- To take a current photo with the webcam, click on "Snapshot" and save the picture. Then go back to "Browse" and select the new picture.
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In this way, you can also display the ad image in your profile change. There are certainly more reasons for this.
