There are a few different options when creating your background.
Open your Windows computer File Explorer (by hitting the Windows key + E). During a meeting, you can select an animated background by clicking More > Effects and Avatars > Select an background. Step 1: Open the File Explorer and copy your favorite images that you want to use as a background for Microsoft Teams meetings. To access the new teams backgrounds folder, you need to: Close and sign out from Microsoft Teams. What are some suggested apps you can use to design a custom Microsoft Teams background? Before a meeting starts, on the pre-join screen, select Effects and Avatars > Video effects and select a new animated background, identified by the small video icon in the bottom-left corner of the preview picture. It’s a nice feature, even if it lacks the ability to upload and use a custom image of your own. If you want to change what appears behind you in your video meeting or call, you can either blur your background, replace it entirely with any image you want, or use Teams virtual background template.And with a Teams Premium license, you can change your Teams meeting background to a branded logo or image specific to your company. But, it will not appear this way to others joining your meeting. Teams allows you to use a set of images selected by Microsoft as the background for meetings.
IMPORTANT: If you have text in your background, it will appear mirrored (or flipped) after you click “apply” in the final step below. Go to Settings in the top-right corner, then select Devices and Camera. Something to keep in mind when designing is that the resolution of your canvas should be 1920 x 1080, and the best format to save as are PNG files.
You can also copy in images to this folder as an alternative step for adding custom backgrounds. It is great that this problem has a solution for most of you, but I notice that there is still small portion of us that continue to have the problem. Select and delete the images you don’t need. You can create custom background images for your Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices to represent your brand or to provide instructions to Teams Rooms users.
To delete the images you no longer want to work with, open the Uploads folder.So if you got a little bit excited about this option to add your own images and now you’ve changed your mind, you can remove them from the list that displays in the Teams Background settings. The Uploads folder is where you have your custom virtual backgrounds. From here, you will see the pre-set backgrounds that you have worked with before in Teams.Launch the File Explorer in Windows and add this location in the address/URL bar and press :.To manually delete or add virtual backgrounds in Teams: Would suggest checking the Teams Version it could be different than other users, besides check on the windows updates.īesides here is the manual way of setting up your custom background if the add new option is not showing.