
Pro Tip: Make sure to click on one of the download image links BELOW the image (1920 x 1080 for desktop or 756 x 1008 for mobile).

The next time you join a meeting and select Background Effects, you'll see the new backgrounds available for selection.Are you attending a virtual Christmas party on Zoom this year? Along with pulling out your ugly Christmas sweater and making holiday food and drinks, decorate digitally with one of our free Christmas Zoom backgrounds !.

In both cases, images must be placed in the "Uploads" folder within Backgrounds.And on a Mac, backgrounds are stored within the Microsoft Teams client folder, within ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Backgrounds.On a Windows PC, backgrounds are downloaded by the Teams client and stored within %APPDATA%MicrosoftTeamsBackgrounds folder, and within this is a folder named Uploads.

Teams will roll out a custom background tool in May but if you can't wait, here's another way to do it - but watch out, it's quite fiddly. Select the photo from your downloads and choose "mirror my video" so the images appear correctly.In Zoom, click the upward arrow next to the video button to choose your virtual background.Click one of the links of your choice and accept the disclaimer before downloading your photo.
