When working in Skype, sometimes for any reasons can be turned upside down, which you pass the interlocutor. In this case, the question of returning the image in the original appearance is natural. In addition, there are situations where the user deliberately wants to turn the camera upside down. Find out how to flip the image on a personal computer or laptop when working in the Skype program.
Coupling Camera Standard Skype Tools
First of all, we will deal with how to turn the image with standard Skype program tools. But, immediately warned that this option is not suitable for everyone. At first, we go to the Skype application menu, and go to its "Tools" and "Settings" items.
Then, go to the video settings subsection.
In the window that opens, click on the "Web Camera Settings" button.
The parameter window opens. At the same time, various cameras have a set of features available in these settings may differ significantly. Among these parameters can be setting under the title "Turn", "Display", and with similar names. Here, experimenting with these settings, you can achieve the rotation of the camera. But, you need to know that changing these parameters will make not only changing the camera setting in Skype, but also to the appropriate change in settings when working in all other programs.
If you never managed to find the corresponding item, or it turned out to be inactive, then you can use the program that was supplied with the installation disk for the camera. With a high probability, it can be said that the function of the camera rotation of this program should be, but this function looks like and configures different devices in different ways.
Coupling with third-party applications
If you still did not find the camera's coup function either in the Skype settings, nor in the standard program of this chamber, then you can set a special third-party application with this function. One of the best programs of this direction is Manycam. Installing this application will not cause anyone's difficulties, since it is standard for all such programs, and intuitively understandable.
After installation, run the ManyCAM application. Below is the "Rotate & Reflect" settings. The latest button in this section of the "flip over the vertical" settings. Click on it. As you can see, the image turned over.
Now we return to the already familiar video settings in Skype. In the rapid part of the window, opposite the inscription "Select Web Camera", choose the Manycam chamber.
Now and in Skype we have an inverted image.
Problems with driver
If you want to turn over the image simply because it is located up with your legs, then, most likely, the problem with the drivers. This can happen when upgrading the operating system to Windows 10 when the standard drivers of this OS are replaced with the original drivers that came with the camera. To solve this problem, we should delete, installed drivers, and replace them with original.
To get into the Device Manager, type the key + R keyboard on the keyboard. To the "Run" window, enter the expression "Devmgmt.msc". Then click on the "OK" button.
Once in the Device Manager, open the section "Sound, Video and Gaming Devices". We are looking for among the names of the problem chamber presented names, click on it right-click, and select the "Delete" item in the context menu.
After deleting the device, install the driver anew or from the original disk, which was supplied with the webcam, or from the manufacturer's website of this webcam.
As you can see, there are several drastically different ways to flip the camera in Skype. What of these ways to use depends on what you want to achieve. If you want to flip the camera in a normal position, as it is upside down, then, first of all, you need to check the driver. If you intend to make actions to change the position of the camera, then, at first, try to make it internal skype tools, and in case of failure, use specialized third-party applications.