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How to Change your Background in Zoom - 2024 Update
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Jun 16, 2024
Learn how to change your background in Zoom with the latest 2024 update in this easy-to-follow tutorial. This video guides you through the process of selecting and using virtual backgrounds to personalize your video calls. Whether you're looking to hide your surroundings or add a touch of fun to your meetings, you'll discover practical tips and techniques to change your Zoom background seamlessly, enhancing your video conferencing experience.
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I want to show you how to change your Zoom background. You can do photos and videos and
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upload your own too. And here's the background picture that I chose for mine. I'll show you
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some resources on where to get yours if you don't have one. So the best way to do this
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is inside of the Zoom app. So make sure you have the Zoom app installed on your computer
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and all you have to do is go to the settings option right here. So click your name and then
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go to settings because you want to do this usually before you start a meeting. So you don't do this
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in the meeting. If you set this up now it's going to appear in the meeting once the meeting starts
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If you go to background and effects right over here this is the background I have right. So
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this is my camera and this is the background I have. So right now if I choose none this is the
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office that I'm sitting at but if I choose blur it could blur that. So this is one option if you
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don't want to choose a different background. Then they have different backgrounds like San Francisco
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they have this earth background and they have a couple of different video options like this is a
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moving video and I think they have this one and that's all they have. So this other one I added
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on my own. So let me show you exactly how you could do that. If you press the plus sign right over here
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you could add an image or a video that has to be on your computer already. So the way I uploaded
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that is I chose image. I chose that background here and I have two. I'm going to just exit out of this
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one and then this is my new one. So this is how I would go back and forth between different ones
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I chose a slightly blurry one because you can't blur this like with your natural environment you
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could press blur to blur it and it will blur the background but with these you have to either
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choose a blurry picture to get this kind of effect. I'll show you another option too in a second and
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you also have this option that says I have a green screen. So if you choose this option right now it's
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not going to do anything because I don't have a green screen and I just put a pop-up green screen
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right behind me and this is something you could pick up from Amazon. I'll put a link below if you
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want a green screen and look at the difference now. This is with the green screen right. I don't even
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have to click this on. Make sure you elevate your laptop or your computer to be at eye level. So if
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you're using any kind of computer right now the camera is right on my eye level so it looks a lot
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more natural when I'm having this kind of conversation and you could also change the
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rotation of this by the way if you're using a different device like your phone here to have
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these type of virtual backgrounds. Okay now if I exit that page and if I jump into a meeting or
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start one it will automatically detect that background. So I'm sitting in front of that
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background that I just set up previously to starting a meeting. If you want to do it while
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you're in a meeting all you have to do is right here where it says start a video there's that
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little arrow and that could also bring up your virtual background over here. This brings you
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back to this page where you could choose any of the other ones that we had like this video one here
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that makes me look like I'm on a beach but again I prefer these more natural ones. So let me show
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you where I get these. So I use this website called Envato Elements. I chose something called
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empty modern office in my search up here and these are all the different ones I got. So this is the
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one I got. Now this is a paid subscription platform. It's pretty inexpensive and you get unlimited
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downloads. So I downloaded this specific image here for this one and it removed the watermark
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but you could test out a lot of different ones with a subscription because it's unlimited
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download. So you can see they have a lot of them and they have these filters here. So I chose no
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people and down here I chose blurry too. So a lot of these options like this one looks blurry. So if
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I want to be in this environment I'll just press download and upload it the same way as before
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And it's that simple to add a virtual background to your Zoom meeting. I hope you found this useful
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I'll see you next time
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