are you wondering how your friends and colleagues have google meet
virtual backgrounds and you'd like to add one
to your video feed well today we're going to show you exactly how to add a background
in google meet it's really easy to do you can add your own personal pictures maybe you want
one from your holiday or you can add something like this a galactic background or even a picture
of a beach there's a whole bunch of preset ones in there it's really easy to change so check it out
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as i'd already mentioned we are going to be showing you how to add a virtual background
to your google meet video feed it's really easy to do let's dive on over to my computer get right
into it and show you how it's done all right so here we are on my computer in google me and you
can go ahead and either join your meeting right here with a code or a link or create
a new meeting which is what we're going to be doing today for the purposes of this video so
i'm going to do that i'm going to start an instant meeting that's going to load up this preview video
so we can make changes here to our video before we actually join the meeting we're not in a
meeting right now so we can make changes now i'm going to show you how to change the background
here and then we're going to log into a meeting and show you how to change the background while
you're in a meeting which is really important if something starts to happen in the background
of your video and you need to turn it off so it's not distracting to others so we're going to
jump in and do both of those so first off on this screen here to make your changes before you join
your meeting you can mute your audio here or your microphone i should say you can turn off your
camera but you'll see this new circle here and when i hover over it it says change background
now we could go ahead and left click on that if you're not seeing that option you're gonna see
three dots here in the top right hand corner of your little preview screen and it says more
options you can go ahead and left click on that and you're gonna see an option in here that says
change background you can go ahead and left click on that now i'm going to just go ahead and left
click on the circle here on my preview video where it says background change or change background
and once you do that you're going to see a whole bunch of preview video backgrounds that come up
now there's a couple options here the first one here is to slightly blur your background
if i do this watch what happens to my background here you're gonna see it gives it a little bit of
a blur so people can't quite see what's going on in the background you can do a heavy blur so fully
blur your background and it's very difficult for others to see now this is great if you're working
in a messy room and you don't want everybody to see everything this will really help with that
here's the plus sign this is where you'd go to actually add your own pictures we'll
do that in a minute once we actually log into a meeting and then you can get into some of their
pre-done backgrounds so there's blurry beach let's see what else there is if you like space you can
go galactic there you can do fireworks which is kind of cool
and maybe you like um staying in a trailer so there's a really nice trailer background there
as well so there's a whole bunch of them i'll let you go through those so once you've found
one you like i'm actually just going to turn it off for now and then we're going to join
our meeting and we'll show you how to add your own custom background so let's click on join now
and this is going to load up a full meeting for us i'm the only one in the meeting currently but
it should look something like this for you now to add your backgrounds while you're in your meeting
there's three dots in the very bottom right hand corner go ahead and left click on that and you're
going to see an option right here that says change background so we'll left click on that and again
a similar window is going to pop up here on the right hand side and you can start selecting the
different options again you can add the blur there or you can add one of their custom ones maybe you
like mountains or of course the beach everybody loves the beach so let's go ahead and actually
maybe add our own background so in order to do that we're going to click on this plus sign here
and that's going to allow you to search your computer for your picture so maybe they're in your
pictures file i've got them here on my desktop so let's go ahead and left click on this one
and hit open and it's going to load up this image of the beach in white rock british columbia that i
took and use that as our background so maybe you want to show off some of your pictures from your
holiday you can easily do that there as well let's go ahead and do one more so click on the plus sign
search your computer for the file i know this one is from vancouver
and this is another picture that i took in vancouver this past summer so you can make changes
however you like there the cool thing that happens when you do this is it preloads them here into
your pictures so i could just easily switch back and forth then and for future videos or future
meetings i can go ahead and select those right away rather than having to search for them on
my computer and it's that simple really to add background pictures or background blurs
here in google meet so hope this tutorial on adding google meet virtual backgrounds did help
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some gmail tutorials on how to add signatures with links and logos as well as how to add
out of office replies i'll have those videos linked below in the description
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would love to hear from you thank you so much for watching today and until next time take care you