With Zoom, you can quickly remotely connect with your friends or workmates. When you connect with someone on Zoom, you want to ensure you look good and presentable. Well, confidence starts with how we appear when others see us.
So, if you tested your Zoom video and realized it doesn’t look good as you would want or that you appear different than the real you, worry less. We will understand this problem in detail.
You should look good by default when you join Zoom and have good lighting. If that’s not the case, something is messing with your appearance. First, it could be you are in a dark environment. Moreover, if you’ve not enabled HD video or have wrongly adjusted the “Touch up my appearance,” you will have issues with your appearance on Zoom.
We will understand why Zoom often shows a messy appearance when using it. Still, we will discuss various ways to adjust your Zoom appearance to ensure you get the correct video quality and look appealing.
Why Do I Look Different on Zoom?
When you join a Zoom session, other participants will see your video feed if you’ve enabled the webcam. When talking with work colleagues, you’ve likely enabled the webcam to enhance interaction and properly communicate with others.
While communicating with someone on Zoom is great, the problem is when your Zoom video feed doesn’t bring you out clearly. In some cases, you might see as if you are appearing pink or other distorted video appearance.
If you are experiencing such a frustrating scenario, don’t panic. Most of us have had such moments and have a solution to the problem. Your appearance is everything; the moment you fail to appear as you wish or expect, that will automatically kill your Zoom confidence.
Three main reasons can make you look different on Zoom.
Poor Lighting
Lighting is everything. Zoom relies on your webcam to show your video feed. Therefore, if you are in a room with poor lighting, you don’t expect to have a good-looking Zoom appearance.
Good lighting creates a spark in the video, making you appear more visible and appealing on Zoom.
Wrong “Touch Up My Appearance” Setting
Zoom has the “Touch up my Appearance” feature that helps adjust the lighting appearance when on Zoom.
However, if you fail to adjust the setting correctly, you will have an issue with your Zoom appearance causing your video to look distorted.
Lack of HD Video
When you’ve not enabled the HD video feature on Zoom, the video feed will use a low-quality stream. Thus, your appearance won’t be the best on Zoom.
How To Fix Your Zoom Appearance
Having seen the different causes of your Zoom video feed not appearing as you would want, the next step is to discuss the ways and the steps to follow to enhance your Zoom appearance.
Adjust the Lighting
Before you join a Zoom meeting, find a place with good lighting and use it for your Zoom session. You can rely on natural or artificial lighting to enhance the video quality. Alternatively, you can use the low light Zoom feature to adjust the lighting condition for your Zoom.
- Open your Zoom desktop and sign in.
- Click the settings icon at the top.
- Find the option for” Video“ on the settings page and click on it.
- Click the “My Video“ option.
- Locate and check the option for “Adjust for low light.”
Switch between the “Manual” and “Auto“ options while dragging the slider for the manual option. If that didn’t do the magic in fixing your Zoom appearance, try the next solution.
Enable HD
For more video feed quality, use the HD feature on Zoom.
- Open your Zoom desktop client and sign in.
- Click the settings icon at the top.
- Open the “Video“ section.
- Locate the “HD“ option under “Camera” and enable it.
Adjust “Touch Up My Appearance“
Zoom allows users to create a softer focus using the “Touch up my Appearance” feature. If you’ve not adjusted this feature correctly, it will affect how you appear on Zoom. In that case, follow the steps below to fix it.
Follow these steps on your PC.
- Open the Zoom desktop client and log in if you haven’t already.
- Click the gear icon at the top to open settings.
- Click the “Video” tab section.
- Find and check the “Touch up my appearance” option.
- Use the slider to adjust the feature by dragging it from left to right.
Conclusion
When you notice your Zoom appearance looks low quality, it could be due to poor lighting or errors with the “Touch up my Appearance” feature. We’ve covered the reasons and offered the steps to fix your Zoom appearance.
