

Note that I’ve saved the photos below at a fairly low resolution so the page will open more quickly, but the versions available on the websites are much crisper. For troubleshooting advice, go to Zoom’s help page. If you have trouble, it may be because your computer doesn’t have enough memory or the right software to run a background. When (or if!) you want to go back to your real-world background, click the square marked “None.”.Now, click on the thumbnail of your uploaded image (near the bottom of the window) to make it your virtual background.In the window that opens, click “Choose a Virtual Background,” then click the plus sign (+) to upload the picture from your computer.Click the “up” arrow (it looks like a small triangle) to the right of the “Start Video” icon in the lower left corner.Note: These instructions are for desktop and laptop versions of the Zoom app the process is slightly different on a phone or tablet. Once you’ve downloaded one of these photos (via the links to the sites below each photo), here’s how you put them in the background of your Zoom call while you’re in a meeting. (They’re also a fun way to virtually travel to the places we’re not allowed to visit at the minute.) If you want to spruce up your Zoom background, tourism boards, hotels and other organizations around the world are only too happy to share pictures of their most photogenic places, which are yours to use on Zoom for free. You may have even looked on in envy as other people on the call sat in front of gorgeous photos of far-away locales. By now, you’ve probably been on roughly a million Zoom calls, and you’re getting heartily sick of looking at your bookshelves or kitchen cupboards in the background.
