How to Share Your Photos Using Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo Photos makes sharing your photos with friends easy with three different ways to stay in touch. Share photos via email, instant messenger or by changing permissions for your photo albums. Follow these steps to share photos via Yahoo Messenger.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Both you and your friend will need Yahoo Messenger version 8.0.0.589 or higher to share photos via Messenger. Download it at http://messenger.yahoo.com.
• A Yahoo Photos account, with photo albums already uploaded. If you don’t have a Yahoo account, sign up at www.yahoo.com.

Add People to Your Friends List

1. Click “Add Friends” on the home page.
2. Add people to your Friends List by entering their Yahoo ID screen names into the search field. If you are adding more than one at the same time, separate each one with commas.
3. Click “Add” when you are finished adding people to your list.

Share Your Photos With Friends via Yahoo Messenger

4. Click on an album you want to share in the collections list.
5. Click “Edit” in the taskbar. Choose “Album,” then click “Instant Message."
6. Select a friend to share your album with from the friends list when the Messenger window opens.
7. Both you and your friend will be able to view the album slideshow in the Messenger window.

Tips & Warnings

• You can share an entire album at once, or individual photos from multiple albums. The photo tray will retain the photos you’ve selected as you move between different albums. Note that you cannot share photos from Smart Albums or the “All My Photos” collection via Yahoo Messenger.
• You can still carry on a conversation with a friend you’re sharing photos with via Instant Messenger. The photo slideshow will play alongside your conversation text.
• Both you and your friend can stop and start the slideshow. Just click "Stop" and "Play." Click on thumbnails in the Messenger window to see a larger version of the photo.
• While your friends will be able to view photos you share, they won’t be able to download them to their own computer.
• Because the photos are no longer viewable once you close the Instant Messenger window, this is a good way of sharing photos temporarily. Nobody else but your friend can see them. (Sharing via email means the recipient can view photos for up to 90 days, and can forward your email invitation to others who can see them, too).
• People who share photos with you are automatically added to your friends list. If you share photos with someone you’ll be added automatically to theirs. You can share photos with people who aren’t on your friends list, but adding them as friends makes it easier.
• Only newer versions of Yahoo Messenger will allow you to share photos in this way. (Check the “Things You’ll Need” section of this article for details).