How to add a background to your Loom video

Take your video to the next level. 🏞️

Once you finish a recording, you can enhance the visuals by adding one of Loom's backdrops. Loom backgrounds provide a straightforward yet effective way to elevate your recordings.

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Please Note

  • Backgrounds are only available on Loom paid plans.
  • Backgrounds will not carry over to downloaded videos.
  • Backgrounds can not be applied to your camera bubble stream or camera only recordings after a recording. If you would like to add a background to your camera bubble follow the steps here.

Here's how to add backgrounds:

  1. Open your video share page and click Edit and enhance your video.
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  2. Click Add Backgrounds, from the editor side panel.
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  3. From here you can choose to a Background to add to your entire recording.
  4. Once you're satisfied with your edit, click 'X' and thats it. ✔️
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