Creative Zoom Backgrounds You Can Download for Free Right Now

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With more people working from home than ever, kitchens have suddenly doubled as offices. If you’re someone who has created a temporary workspace in a random room of your house, your video conferencing background might leave much to be desired. After all, you might not want your colleagues to see a messy counter or sink full of dishes.

Thankfully, apps including Zoom allow you to change your background to a photo while you’re still visible. Right now, there are so many possibilities! Because of the unprecedented number of virtual meetings, different places around the web are sharing creative designs to make sure you’re looking your best while on video. Suddenly, you’re not at your crowded kitchen table, but in the middle of a field of flowers. Or, you’re traipsing through the forest on the heels of Totoro.

So, if you are desperate to get rid of your home as a backdrop, look no further than these Zoom virtual backgrounds. They’re all free, so you can download as many as you like and switch them up with every meeting you have.

Are you attending a lot of video meetings? Switch up your background with one of these free Zoom backgrounds.

Photo:Hygee & West

Try a background inspired by art history…

“Irises” (detail), 1889, Vincent van Gogh. Oil on canvas, 29 1/4 × 37 1/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 90.PA.20
Photo: Getty’s Open Content Program

“Landscape with Classical Ruins and Figures” (detail), about 1725–1730, Marco Ricci. Oil on canvas, 48 1/2 × 63 1/2 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 70.PA.33
Photo: Getty’s Open Content Program

“Van Tromp, going about to please his Masters, Ships a Sea, getting a Good Wetting” (detail), 1844, Joseph Mallord William Turner. Oil on canvas, 36 3/8 × 48 1/2 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 93.PA.32
Photo: Getty’s Open Content Program

Detail from “Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch” (the Book of Miracles), Folio 2 (Genesis 9, 12-15), circa 1552
Photo: Public Domain Review

Detail from a design for Mozart’s The Magic Flute—”The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night”, Act 1, Scene 6—by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1847–49
Photo: Public Domain Review

Detail from Plate 92, Filicinae, from Ernst Haeckel’s “Kunstformen der Natur, the Art Forms of Nature,” published in 1904
Photo: Public Domain Review