Where are my Skype images saved ?

I’ve recently ran into this issue when trying to finally set up an avatar for all of my social networks/userid’s. I knew that Skype would let you take screenshots of yourself if you have a camera: Tools > Options > General > video settings > Take a video snapshot however I couldn’t really use the image on anything else but Skype since I didn’t know where it saved it. I’d rather have the same avatar across the board so I did a little research.

Here is how to find your Skype images on your computer. First Make sure you can see hidden files and folders. To check this you will have to go to Control Panel > Folder Options > Click on the View Tab > Under the Hidden files and folders section make sure that > Show hidden files, folders, and drives is selected.

Now the very intuitive location of your images is in this previously hidden folder:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Skype\Pictures
Of coures replace YOURUSERNAME with your user name

Pretty easy if you know the right steps to take. Now I’m sure you don’t want to have to remeber that ridiculous location every time you want to look though those pictures. My suggestion would be to create a shortcut to it. You can easily do this by first browsing to the desired location IE: Pictures folder or wherever you’d like and then right-click on empty space > New > Shortcut For location use: C:\Users\Valued User\AppData\Roaming\Skype\Pictures > Next > Name it > Finish Having this setup seems a lot more logical for me and you apparently not yet for Skype.