ABC Virtual Background Maker

A lightweight frontend app to generate and download virtual background image with text.

✨ Why we created ABC Virtual Background Maker

We recognized the need for a tool that allows teams to personalize their virtual backgrounds with ease, enhancing their professional image and brand identity.

If you've ever found yourself squinting at the screen during a video call, trying to match names to faces as your team grows, or wishing you could make it super easy for partners to spot your name and company, then this app's got your back.

And let's say your company is all about that unified look and drops official backgrounds to keep everyone's vibe on brand – you're going to love this.

💡 Features

1. Customizable Text Overlay - Conveniently add your name, company name, or any other information for Zoom or Teams calls.
2. Adjustable Fonts and Text Placement - Customize fonts and textfield position according to your preferences.
3. Organizable Themes - Create collections of background images, similar to folders, allowing for easy management of virtual backgrounds.
4. Image Storage Option - Manage your background images on GitHub repo, or load them from local directory.
5. Mirror Image Option - Download a reversed version of the image to accommodate video feeds that flip your background horizontally.
6. Image Upload Capability - Beyond using the preloaded backgrounds, users can also upload their own picture to create personalized virtual backgrounds.
7. Customizable Appearance - Change the UI with your organization's key color and name for a consistent look across your sites.
8. No Fuss App - It's a straightforward React web app that doesn't mess around with backend stuff.

Getting Started

🛠️ How to Build

• We recommend using Node.js Version 18+ and pnpm https://pnpm.io/installation

• Build path: dist

• Build Command

  pnpm install && pnpm run build

💻 Local Development

1. In the repo folder

   pnpm install
   pnpm run dev

2. Dev server will be running at

   http://localhost:5173/

🐙 GitHub Pages Deployment

You can deploy directly from your GitHub repository using GitHub Pages at Setting > Pages > Github Actions menu. Check our deployment workflow with GitHub Actions at .github/workflows/deploy.yml

🐳 Container Deployment

We offer a Dockerfile to help you get started quickly. You can execute the Docker commands as follows. It will allow you to access via 8080 port.

docker build -t abc-virtual-background-maker .
docker run -d -p 8080:80 abc-virtual-background-maker

🧞‍♂️ How To Customize

Modify app.config.json file.

📷 Backgrounds Uri

You can choose where to load background images from. Currently, we are supporting filesystem, CDN, and GitHub repo. Below json examples shows how to set backgroundsUri value.

• with local images

  "backgroundsUri": {
    "type": "filesystem",
    "path": "./backgrounds"
  }

• with CDN images

  "backgroundsUri": {
    "type": "cdn",
    "path": "https://your-cdn-host/backgrounds"
  }

• with GitHub repository

You can manage background images using a GitHub repository. Suppose that you created a repository with the following structure:

your-background-repo
├── backgrounds
│   ├── (app.config.json) // Optional. Without this configuration file, themes and background images are sorted alphabetically.
│   ├── your-theme-name
│   │   ├── 01.jpg
│   │   ├── 02.jpg

Rename .env.example file to .env (which will be ignored by Git), and set generated Personal Access Token value.

The app.config.json should be as below;

  "backgroundsUri": {
    "type": "github",
    "path": "https://{your-git-host}/api/v3/repos/{your-repo-owner}/{your-repo-name}/contents/backgrounds"
  }

🗂️ Themes

1. Add new object value in app.config.json 's themes. (Value Type src/constants/theme.ts)
2. Set theme name value in new object. (The theme name should match with the backgrounds subdirectory name.)

Theme		default
name	Theme name should be unique.
backgrounds	Array of images. (Detailed explanation about Image is below)
inputFields (optional)	Set up an input field group just for this theme
isNew (optional)	If it's true, new icon shows up next to this theme	false
isHidden (optional)	If it's true, this theme will be hidden	false

🌆 Background Images

• with local images

1. Prepare 16:9 ratio images
2. Set image file name with rgb color with comma rrr,ggg,bbb between two dots, only if you need to set text color. (ex. 01.255,255,255.jpg)
3. Add background image files into backgrounds/**/*. (or any other directory and set backgroundsUri as relative path.)
4. pnpm run build or pnpm run dev
5. output.config.json 's themes's backgrounds value will be changed automatically.

• with CDN images

1. Prepare 16:9 ratio images urls
2. Set backgroundsUri in app.config.json as base url.
3. Add themes's backgrounds values as an object in app.config.json.

Image		default
src	contains the path to the image you want to embed
fontColor (optional)	Font color in this image
theme (optional)	Which theme does it belong to

📝 Input Fields

• Modify default input fields: Change defaultInputFields's value in app.config.json (Value Type src/constants/input.ts)

  InputFieldGroup		default
  position	InputFieldGroup position within the image divided by 3x3 sections. (row-column)
  fields	InputField items
  direction (optional)	Align InputField items in InputFieldGroup. (column: Items are stacked, row: Items are laid out in a line.)	column
  offset (optional)	Adjusting detail position from origin point. (Detailed explanation is below)	{x: '0', y: '0'}

  InputField		default
  label	Unique label of input (also used as placeholder text)
  fontSize	Font size of input
  fontStyle	Typography of input
  offset	Adjusting detail position from origin point. (Detailed explanation is below)
  isRequired (optional)		false
  text (optional)	Default value of input	""
  tooltip (optional)	Allows you to add a description of the input.	""

• Offset

  You can locate textfield by adjusting offset values. The value {"x":"0%", "y": "0%"} starts from Top-Left corner as the origin point.

  Below table shows reference values according to 1920x1080 or 1280x720 images. Use this table as a guide to approximate the placement of your textfield in pixels.

  Pixels	20%	40%	60%	80%
  1920 px	384	768	1152	1536
  1080 px	216	432	648	864
  1280 px	256	512	768	1024
  720 px	144	288	432	576

• Modify input fields for each theme: Add themes's inputFields's value in app.config.json. (It will overwrites defaultInputFields.)

🪄 Font Styles

To embed 19 Google web fonts (total 20 fonts!),

1. Copy the code into the of index.html

<link
  href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Abril+Fatface&family=Alfa+Slab+One&family=Arvo:wght@700&family=Black+Ops+One&family=DM+Sans:opsz,wght@9..40,800&family=DM+Serif+Text&family=Dosis:wght@800&family=Exo:wght@800&family=Gasoek+One&family=Gloock&family=Hanuman:wght@900&family=Inter:wght@800&family=Kalnia:wght@600&family=Lobster&family=Noto+Serif:wght@800&family=Nunito:wght@900&family=Roboto:wght@900&family=Rubik+Bubbles&family=Ultra&family=Zilla+Slab:wght@700&display=swap"
  rel="stylesheet"
/>

2. Add fonts's styles in app.config.json

"styles": [
  "LINE Seed",
  "Inter",
  "Roboto",
  "DM Sans",
  "Exo",
  "Noto Serif",
  "Kalnia",
  "DM Serif Text",
  "Abril Fatface",
  "Gloock",
  "Zilla Slab",
  "Hanuman",
  "Dosis",
  "Alfa Slab One",
  "Arvo",
  "Rubik Bubbles",
  "Ultra",
  "Lobster",
  "Gasoek One",
  "Black Ops One"
]

To embed local web fonts,

1. Add font file (woff2) in public.
2. Add @font-face style in styles/_font.scss.

@font-face {
  font-weight: 700;
  font-family: "LINE Seed";
  font-style: normal;
  font-stretch: normal;
  src: url("/LINESeedJP_OTF_Bd.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

3. Add fonts's styles as that font-family name in app.config.json

✏️ Font Sizes

Modify fonts's sizes value in app.config.json

🎨 UI Theme Color

To change the color of the UI elements such as toggles and buttons, you can add the keyColor value in rrr,ggg,bbb format in the app.config.json file. It fosters a consistent design identity for your team.

Overriding default values per Theme

You may want to override default values for specific theme. We support this feature by placing another app.config.json file under backgrounds directory.

In app.config.json structure, themes node can be overridden by app.config.json file in backgroundsUri path. It means, you maintain root app.config.json for common values, and you can override values for specific theme by placing another app.config.json under backgrounds directory as below;

your-background-directory
├── backgrounds
│   ├── app.config.json
│   ├── office
│   │   ├── 01.jpg
│   │   ├── 02.jpg

With above structure, let say you want to override themes node for office theme. If you want to override defaultInputFields for specific theme, you can add inputFields value in app.config.json under each theme node as below.

{
  "themes": [
    {
      "name": "office",
      "inputFields": [
        {
          "position": "top-right",
          "direction": "column",
          "fields": [
            {
              "label": "name",
              "fontSize": "Large",
              "fontStyle": "LINE Seed",
              "offset": {
                "x": "0%",
                "y": "0%"
              },
              "isRequired": true
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "position": "bottom-left",
          "fields": [
            {
              "label": "Team Name",
              "fontSize": "Large",
              "fontStyle": "LINE Seed",
              "offset": {
                "x": "0%",
                "y": "0%"
              },
              "isRequired": true,
              "text": "IT Support Team"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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