How to configure the webcam in Skype

How to configure the webcam in Skype

Skype victoriously walks for a long time on the world, the army of his admirers everything stays. It is not surprising – an opportunity to talk free of charge to the family in audio and that is even more valuable – in video a format it is impossible to overestimate. And it is rather simple to configure the webcam in Skype.

It is required to you

  • - existence of the high-speed Internet;
  • - standard webcam.

Instruction

1. If you in the PC have no built-in webcam, get the simplest in shop. If you are not sure, consult with the seller or with the friend who understands it, but you remember that you do not need superfancy model at all. Upon purchase make sure that together with the webcam in a set there are drivers.

2. Connect the webcam to the computer if for the unclear reason in a set of drivers it did not appear – download them from the Internet. The main thing that downloaded drivers corresponded to the brand of the webcam.

3. Make sure that Skype "saw" the svezhepodklyuchenny webcam. Make it as follows: pass into the Tools menu, click the option "Setup", after that pass into the Video settings submenu and make sure that near the option "Include Skype of Video" there is a tick. This tick should be on this place.

4. If everything is all right, Skype made out the connected webcam, and it began to work – in the monitor upper right corner you will see yourself. If your image is absent – demolish drivers, again install them, and again check whether there is an image. If the attempt was completed successfully – you will see yourself and the interlocutor, and your interlocutor will see you.

5. Adjust the image to the taste. For this purpose there is an option "Settings of the Webcam", come into it and study the offered opportunities. By means of this option you will be able to set brightness, contrast and a color gamma. All made changes will directly happen at you before eyes - on the monitor of your PC, and you will control with own hand all process.

6. After all these steps are complete, you will make necessary settings and quality of video of the image you will arrange, click the option "Save". Enjoy video communication worldwide!

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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