How to use personal photos for your Windows 11 background

Say goodbye to those stale stock photo backgrounds

- ALEX HUEBNER

Nothing makes your computer space quite your own like having a personalized background. It's time to retire those boring photo backgrounds and replace to them with something unique and inspiring. If you're looking to spice things up, you're in luck. We've put together a step-by-step guide on how to add personalized photos to your desktop.

CHANGING YOUR BACKGROUND IMAGE FROM FILE FINDER

Before you begin, make sure the image you want to use is saved to your computer. Once you’ve saved it, click on the file finder icon. A window of your files will open.

Select the file where you’ve saved the image. Once you’ve located it, you have a few options on how to set it as your background. The first is to right-click the image icon to pull up a menu (1).

Choose the “Set as desktop background” option toward the top of the menu (2).

Another way to set your desktop background from this location is to left-click the image in the file and select the “Set as background” option at the top of the file finder window (3).