This doesn’t mean you want bright sunshine streaming down on you, but if you have a window that is partially shaded (without casting shadows across your face), OR if you have plain white curtains that you can pull closed to diffuse the light – you’ll have the best lighting option around.įacing a window can almost take 10 years off your age due to how it softens and disguises things like wrinkles and discoloration or blemishes.
If you have the option, use natural filtered daylight. Here are the best ways to use your lighting to your advantage to help you look your best: The single most important thing to plan that will happen in front of you during your video call is your lighting! I’ll give you some tips about each one to help you ensure that when the focus is on you & your space, it’s for a good reason! #1 | In Front Of You
In every video call or class, there are three areas that give you opportunities to stand out – either in a good or bad way.
There are Three Important Areas to Focus On: * This post contains affiliate links to products I know &/or love. I’m glad to get a chance to share what I know about creating professional zoom backgrounds that keep the focus on you and what you have to say, and not on distractions around you. Have you found yourself on zoom more in the past year or so? Today we’re talking all about how to make a zoom background that you’ll be proud to sit in front of for future calls!Īs part of my Behind the Scenes design group, I’ve actually been doing weekly zoom calls since the middle of 2019! I like to say we were on zoom before it became the thing to do!Īnd it was actually one of my students who suggested this idea of creating a how-to guide for creating a better background for video-based calls and meetings.Īfter she mentioned it, I did some research on YouTube and was surprised to see that there really wasn’t much out there talking about this topic – and it’s really needed! So many people are using zoom and other video-conferencing programs and feel embarrassed about their space, sometimes even so much that they prefer not to even turn their camera on!
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