The video-chatting app Zoom has exploded in popularity while people are quarantined, and while its true purpose is for work-related meetings, you can also use Zoom just to hang out with your friends.

It’s as easy to make a custom Zoom background that’s silly to mess around with your friends and coworkers, as it is to make a serious Zoom background for business meetings. We’ll show you how.

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...