Custom backgrounds?

Tony_Novelli 

you're very welcome, I too am sort of new to Teams, I recently upgraded our ORG from Skype for Business to Teams. there are some good this about it, but it lacks a lot.. hopefully MS will get it all worked out.

regarding the images showing backwards, that is normal, the other end will see it correctly. if you flip it, then the people see you will see your background the way that you are currently seeing it now.

hope that makes sense.

-Gio

AtanasioG Thanks so much for your time. I've gotten it to work, though it wasn't a direct route for me. I first moved ALL the files from the Backgrounds folder into the uploads subfolder (which was empty). Then I tried to fire up a meeting, though being a novice, the easiest thing for me to do was to just create a team with no other members. I fired up a video chat and the program quit a couple of times. I moved the files that had been in stalled by the program *back into the backgrounds folder and things went much better, with the files accessible from both folders. I did notice though the images are reversed when displayed... at least in my one-person meetings. I guess I'll have to flip them in photoshop for this purpose.

You've been tremendously helpful, and I very much appreciate it. Soon I'll marshall my strength and go look for the OneDrive group... hoo boy I have some issues there. Thank you again.

Tony_Novelli 

You will need to place your custom backgrounds in the Uploads folder %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads. i guess that's a preset in the Teams application for any non-Teams files, originally I did place my files in the background folder and they were not displaying in Teams.

Also, you don't need to call anyone; what i do is, I simply create a Teams Meeting, I join it  then i click on the 3 dots in the menu, select "show background effects", and right there, i can preview all my backgrounds. When I am done, i simply end the meeting.. 

Hope this helps

AtanasioG Thank you for your reply. So I just did a test call with a workmate and that menu DID show up in the options area, though the screen options were pre-loaded into the folder I created and did not include ones I previously populated there. I didn't want to bother my co-worker too long so there might have been an option to add the screens zoom-style, but I didn't see it, and I don't see any options to preview any of this outside of actually being in a video chat.

Tony_Novelli 

Greetings, sorry for the late reply. unfortunately I do not know why you you are unable to see the directory. it may be possible that your IT dept could be blocking it? not too sure. do you see this, when you are on a video call? click on the 3 dots to see the sub-menu.

AtanasioG  I needed to create a folder at that path, populated it, and then restarted Teams in the hopes it would enable something akin to the "advanced" options of the Windows counterpart - even after installing latest update this morning I'm not finding settings to include background effects.