To change the background in Gmail, you can pick a theme. For example, you can change the theme from light to dark. When you use Gmail on your computer, you have additional theme options, such as personal photos from Google Photos.
Change the background theme
Important: For some themes, you have the option to change the text background, make corners darker, or blur the background. If these options aren't available, you can't make changes to the selected theme.
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- At the top right, click Settings
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- In the “Quick settings” menu, go to the “Theme” section.
- Next to "Theme," click View all.
- In the theme window, select a theme.
- For the default theme, select Default.
- For Dark theme, select Dark.
- For a pre-uploaded theme, select any theme.
- Optional: If available, at the bottom of the theme window, you can change the theme.
- To change the text background, click Text background
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- To make the corners darker, click Vignette
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- To blur background theme, click Blur
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- To change the text background, click Text background
- Click Save.
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.Set a photo as your background
Important: To use a personal photo as your background, add the photo to a new or existing album in Google Photos.
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- At the top right, click Settings
- In the “Quick settings” menu, go to the “Theme” section.
- Next to "Theme," click View all.
- At the bottom left of the theme window, click My photos.
- In the background image window, select Featured or Photos.
- Select a photo.
- If the photo is blurry, choose a larger photo.
- At the bottom right, click Insert.
- Optional: At the bottom of the theme window, you can change the theme.
- To change the text background, click Text background
- To make the corners darker, click Vignette
- To blur background theme, click Blur
- To change the text background, click Text background
- Click Save.