How to change your Skype background for video calls

(Pocket-lint) - In an effort to transcript 1 of Zoom's astir fashionable features, Skype lets you alteration your inheritance during video calls.

Zoom calls its mentation of this diagnostic virtual backgrounds. We've adjacent rounded up our favourite images to use erstwhile changing your Zoom virtual background. Those aforesaid images can, of course, beryllium utilized with the latest mentation of Skype. Want to look similar you're calling from the Starship Enterprise oregon from the acceptable of The Office? It's arsenic casual arsenic a elemental settings alteration successful Skype.

How to alteration your inheritance successful Skype

Skype recommends you usage images successful scenery orientation, and that the customized representation is saved locally connected your computer.

Option 1 (during a call):

1. Open Skype connected the web oregon the latest mentation of the Skype app for Windows, Mac oregon Linux.
2. During a call, hover implicit the video button oregon click the More menu.
3. Click Choose inheritance effect.
4. You tin past blur the room, take 1 of the predefined images, take an representation you antecedently added oregon adhd a caller image.

Option 2 (before a call):

1. Open Skype connected the web oregon the latest mentation of the Skype app for Windows oregon Mac.
2. Click your profile picture.
3. Click Settings, and past click Audio and Video.
4. Under Choose inheritance effect, you tin blur the room, take 1 of the predefined images, take an representation you antecedently added oregon adhd a caller image.

Note: To blur your inheritance successful Skype, your machine processor needs to enactment Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2).

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 22 April 2020.