

If you like what you’ve seen here, go ahead and download your favorite virtual backgrounds for video calls! Zoom’s virtual background feature can work with or without a green screen, depending on your computer system’s capabilities. We recently held a virtual surprise party for our teammate Lisa, complete with cat backgrounds to honor her love for cats! How to get started with a virtual background

Want to take your company’s virtual happy hours up a notch? Choose a theme and ask attendees to come with a virtual background that matches the theme.

Themed Backgrounds for Virtual Happy Hours Check out their specially curated collection for virtual backgrounds. Giphy is another place to find animated backgrounds. That said, there are times for the more attention-grabbing backgrounds, Kevin’s favorite being a realistic roller coaster loop. He said, “It’s always a careful balance… you want just enough going on to illicit a reaction but not so busy that it creates a problem.”

His advice for choosing a background involves knowing your audience and the mood of the meeting. Kevin Knapp, Senior Customer Support Engineer, got started with a reddit thread of virtual backgrounds for work. Most works in the Public Domain are over a century old, but there are also incredible collections of modern images from NASA and SpaceX. What I love about Rawpixel is their Public Domain collection-illustrations, paintings, photography, and other creative works that are not protected by any copyright, trademark, or patent laws. Unsplash contains over one million curated photos, gathered by a community of over 150,000 photographers worldwide, that are “free to do-whatever-you-want with.” Though travel may be limited for now, you can still find a gorgeous landscape image of your favorite place, and imagine you’re working from anywhere in the world. To start, browse stock photography sites like Unsplash and Rawpixel. Read on to see our team’s top picks as well as a few tips on how to find and choose the best background images for your next meeting. If you want to add personality, hide a cluttered room, or add a branded touch to your team’s online meetings and sales calls, then try these virtual backgrounds for video calls. If you’re not yet familiar with virtual backgrounds, a green screen effect replaces your actual environment with your image or video of choice. From work meetings to calls with friends and family, virtual backgrounds add a touch of personality and humor to video calls. One of the many unexpected trends in 2020? A major boom in demand for video conference software, and thus images to use as virtual backgrounds on those video calls.
