If you have any problems, let me know and I’ll get Bryan to help. I know loading a custom Zoom background may be a little silly, but it brings a glimmer of joy to my day, and I hope you find one or two that brighten your meetings, as well. Take a look, and if you see any you like, simply download them with the down arrow in the left-side menu. How about overlooking the Tower Bridge, or crossing the Thames in London? A sunny beach in Mexico or Costa Rica? If you are concerned you boss might start to question your travel expenses, try a background from New York City, New Orleans, Seattle, Mount Rushmore, or near here in Winter Park, Colorado. Maybe your daily check-in can be from outside a pub in Ireland, or inside the Louvre courtyard in France.

You are welcome to download and use them in Zoom to your heart’s content. With this in mind, here’s a gallery of free background photos from our travels over the years. Add some Holy Cross to your Zoom calls with these free downloads Whether you want to show HC pride during a work call or are having a digital happy hour. It’s easy to do if your computer is up for it, and I swear it transforms heading into yet another face-to-virtual-face meeting into, well, at least something better than another virtual meeting. Ok, maybe that’s a little dramatic, but it still makes me smile. Suddenly I’m no longer sheltering-in-place at home, I’ve escaped and am living the digital nomad life, taking that meeting from an exotic location.

Then I discovered (like many of us) that I can change my background image and a whole new world opened up. Since we have been in quarantine, clicking that link to open up yet another meeting where I now have to be on screen has become almost painful. But I almost always have clients enter the meeting with video off under the guise (and truth!) that I am just going to share my screen. I have been working remotely for nine years now.

Zoom backgrounds free download