. Press the PrintScreen button when your computer is in the desired state to take the screenshot.
Go back to Skype. With your writing cursor (the flashing thing) inside the message typing field, press Ctrl + V to paste the pixels into your Skype conversation. Alternatively, right-click the field and select Paste.
You should see a small version of your screenshot in the field now. Press Enter. Skype will create a PNG file named with a timestamp and send it. Notes:. You cannot send text and screenshots in a single message. If a message contains a screenshot, the text will be deleted and only the screenshot sent.
You can send multiple screenshots through this method. Just paste them one after the other and press Enter. This function is not limited to screenshots.
If you want to host a Skype movie party with your friends, create a new group on Skype and name it something like “Movie Party.” Add your friends to the group and set a time for the movie. Before the party starts, download an audio program and set it to be your default playback device. This will ensure everyone can hear the movie.
Some applications in which you can copy or cut pixels will allow you to paste your clipboard into Skype just the same, such as Adobe Photoshop (tested with CS6, 64-bit version). Paint, however, does not allow this. All images sent through this method are archived in C: Users AppData Roaming Skype My Skype Received Files. You can access those files anytime through either:. Double-clicking the image icon to the left of the file transfer entry in your Skype conversation; or. Browsing to the folder.
Note that AppData is a hidden folder, and that by default, it might not appear to you. You can remedy to that in Control Panel - Folder Options. Screenshot software that disable the Print Screen key's default behaviour and, for example, create a file on the desktop, might make this impossible, since they do not put pixels in your clipboard. This trick is not available on the Mac OS or Linux versions of Skype. To the best of my knowledge, this has been possible since the version 5 of Skype, at the very least. This depends on how often you need to do screenshots.
If you work with screenshots every day and can make use of enhanced features (like quick annotations etc), it is well worth considering to install software to do these things. After all, hitting Print-Screen and directly selecting a destination for the screenshot is simpler than Print-Screen, focus another program, paste. That said, Skype definitely has great image-from-clipboard support, most other software embeds a huge Windows bitmap instead. – Apr 19 '13 at 9:04.