HP Webcam - User Guide

4 HP Webcam User’s Guide
Starting a Video Conference
You can add live video to the most popular instant messaging (IM) applications
(ISP connection required):
 Windows Live
™
Messenger
 AOL
®
Instant Messenger
™
(AIM
®
)
 Yahoo!
®
Messenger
 Skype
®
1 Open the instant messaging application.
2 Sign in.
3 Follow the video conferencing steps in your IM application’s documentation.
Taking a Picture
1 Double-click the HP Photosmart
Essential icon on the Windows
desktop.
2 Select View>Get Images>From
Scanner. The Select Device dialog
box appears.
3 Select HP Camera and then
click OK.
4 A warning appears to indicate that the
device isn’t a scanner. Click Yes.
5 Click Capture to take a picture
(snapshot).
6 Click Transfer to save the picture in
the My Documents/My Scans/
<Current Month> folder.
Now you are ready to edit and share your photos with HP Photosmart Essential. To learn
more about using HP Photosmart Essential, click the Help menu.
NOTE: HP recommends using VGA resolution or lower to optimize your video
conferencing experience. Video performance varies depending on your PC performance
and Internet bandwidth.