- Hey everyone. I'm Julie,
I'm a program manager at Microsoft
and today I'm gonna show you
one of my favorite things Microsoft Teams
and that is how to change your background.
So if you're anything like me
and you are totally tired
of the same old white walls
in your background every day,
then this is perfect for you.
So let me show you how to do this.
Welcome to my kitchen slash living room.
So if you're setting up your video
and audio settings before
your meeting begins,
just make sure that both your
video and audio are turned on
then to the right of the mic switch,
click this background settings image icon.
That's gonna open up all of
your options to the right.
Now, if you're anything like me
and you don't want your
bike in your background,
click the blur feature.
And just like that.
Everything behind me gets all blurry
while I stay nice and clear.
Now let's say you wanted
to choose from one of Microsoft Teams
previously installed images.
You could do that to just click around.
Ooh, that's cool.
That's like a cool industrial office vibe,
but I'm kind of feeling like
I wonna be on the beach today.
Let's check out this beach picture.
Oh yeah, definitely more my style.
I like this one
but let's say you wanted to
add your own custom picture.
You could do that too.
Go up to add new,
and select a picture from your computer.
Just make sure that it's either a JPEG
PNG or BMP file.
I'm gonna check out my
Northern lights picture.
Let's see how that looks.
Ooh, that's cool.
Dark moody vibes from this one.
I like this.
So it's as easy as that,
but let's say you wanted
to change your background image
while a meeting was already happening.
So it's pretty easy to do that too
just click join now.
Okay, cool.
Now that we're in with a meeting
that's already in progress,
go up two more actions,
click on that, scroll down
to apply background effects
and from here,
you're gonna see the
same exact image options.
The only difference is now
you're actually gonna be able
to preview your background.
So let's see what my
background is gonna look like.
And it's gonna show up
right in this lower right hand corner.
Ooh, I like this.
This is fun and colorful.
So I'm gonna choose this.
All you have to do is select
apply and turn on video
and there you have it
setting up your background
image is that simple.
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See you next time.
