Hello friends! I just got through creating this awesome happy birthday
Zoom background that you can see right behind me right there.
So if you want to know how I created that Zoom background using PicMonkey
then keep watching.
If we are meeting for the first time, hi my name is Shawn.
Welcome! On this channel I am passionate
about bringing back family fun.
And one way that we have all been having fun is
online through the Zoom app.
So today I'm going to show you how to create
your own virtual Zoom background.
We are going to start with a template, a fresh template.
Now I do have the paid version so if you want a free option,
make sure you watch my Canva tutorial
for a free option on how to create a virtual background.
But it does not use any words.
It's just how to create a standard virtual background.
But this one I'm going to show you on PicMonkey.
Okay so we're going to go to templates.
And we are going to pick a YouTube template
that will have the correct size that we want.
all right so we can do and let's choose this one.
And we're gonna change everything about this image.
Okay so we're just gonna delete everything.
I do like the tie-dye background they have.
That is super cool but I want to show you how you can do your own image.
So go to unsplash dot com to get some free images.
And I'm going to search for balloons because balloons
are just perfect with birthdays.
And you just click the little download arrow button here.
And then you save it to your desktop.
Go back to PicMonkey and you can just drop it in.
And it shows up on your screen.
Okay and then I like to just drag, let's see let's minimize that so we can see here,
and you just drag it out however you want your image to show up.
Do you want a little bit of there we go.
Okay and then we want to add some text to this.
We want to add some happy birthday text.
So I can go over to text, add text.
They have little layouts you can choose from but I'm gonna find a fun,
I like let's do this one oh yeah.
Do we want that one or this one?
Let's go with bold.
I like to use this smash font.
Okay and we're gonna type in happy birthday.
All right so it's a little big.
Let's see if we can shrink it down a little bit.
Okay and let's kind of turn it a little bit.
Let's put it over in this corner.
Now you can't really see it that much can you?
So we're gonna go to effects and I like to add an outline.
Let's not do pink though.
I always like adding black.
Is that is that too bold?
It's too bold.
We could do the opposite.
We could do white here and then go back here
and change the color of the text to black.
Or you could do pink or red.
I'm gonna do black.
I don't know, I like the pink.
Do you like the pink?
And then let's add in a drop shadow.
Yeah that looks good.
It looks like a sticker.
All right so you're gonna hit this little button down here
that says flip vertically.
And that is going to change it so that it is a mirror image of itself.
So that when you download it get rid of this other one here.
And save it to your desktop.
It is this easy you guys.
It is so easy.
Okay now we're gonna hop on and have a Zoom meeting with ourself.
Okay now this is a previous background from another tutorial I did using Canva.
So we're gonna choose a virtual background.
and then we're gonna click on this little plus sign right here
to add the image in.
Here's our image.
We're gonna open it up and now you have your own happy birthday
Zoom virtual background you love it.
Do you love it?
I think it's super cool.
All right there it is.
Oh let's get rid of this you can see me better.
There it is.
We're on the Zoom Happy Birthday.
And you could, I could have cropped this differently you know.
Moved it over some and everything.
I just love it.
it is that easy.
So that is the tutorial, if you want to see one using Canva, that is free,
I will leave that right up here in the cards and in the description box down below.
Let me know if you like this kind of tutorial thing.
I love having fun on my channel and zoom backgrounds are certainly fun.
I'll see you in my next video.
thanks for watching. bye!