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+title: Quickstart - Add video effects to your video calls (Web)
+titleSuffix: An Azure Communication Services quickstart
+description: Learn how to add video effects in your video calls using Azure Communication Services.
+author: sloanster
+
+ms.author: micahvivion
+ms.date: 01/09/2023
+ms.topic: quickstart
+ms.service: azure-communication-services
+ms.subservice: calling
+ms.custom: mode-other
+---
+
+You can use the Video effects feature to add effects to your video in video calls.
+
+## Prerequisites
+- Setup Azure Communication Services to be able to start video calls. [Follow this guide](../video-calling/video-calling-javascript.md). You'll need the `LocalVideoStream` to be able to start effects.
+
+## Using video effects
+### Install the package
+Use the `npm install` command to install the Azure Communication Services Effects SDK for JavaScript.
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> This quickstart uses the Azure Communication Services Calling SDK version greater than `1.10.0` and the Azure Communication Services Calling Effects SDK version greater than `1.0.0`.
+```console
+npm install @azure/communication-calling-effects --save
+```
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> Currently there are two available video effects:
+> - Background blur
+> - Background replacement with an image
+>
+
+To use video effects with the Azure Communication Calling SDK, once you have created a `LocalVideoStream`, you need to get the `VideoEffects` feature API of the `LocalVideoStream` to start/stop video effects:
+```js
+import * as AzureCommunicationCallingSDK from '@azure/communication-calling'; 
+
+import { BackgroundBlurEffect, BackgroundReplacementEffect } from '@azure/communication-calling-effects'; 
+
+// Get the video effects feature api on the LocalVideoStream 
+// (here, localVideoStream is the LocalVideoStream object you created while setting up video calling)
+const videoEffectsFeatureApi = localVideoStream.features(AzureCommunicationCallingSDK.Features.VideoEffects); 
+
+
+// Subscribe to useful events 
+videoEffectsFeatureApi.on(‘effectsStarted’, () => { 
+    // Effects started
+});
+
+videoEffectsFeatureApi.on(‘effectsStopped’, () => { 
+    // Effects stopped
+}); 
+
+videoEffectsFeatureApi.on(‘effectsError’, (error) => { 
+    // Effects error
+});
+```
+
+### Background blur:
+```js
+// Create the effect instance 
+const backgroundBlurEffect = new BackgroundBlurEffect(); 
+
+// Recommended: Check support 
+const backgroundBlurSupported = await backgroundBlurEffect.isSupported(); 
+
+if (backgroundBlurSupported) { 
+    // Use the video effects feature api we created to start effects
+    await videoEffectsFeatureApi.startEffects(backgroundBlurEffect); 
+}
+```
+
+### Background replacement with an image:
+You need to provide the URL of the image you want as the background to this effect.
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> The `startEffects` method will fail if the URL is not of an image or is unreachable/unreadable.
+>
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> Current supported image formats are: png, jpg, jpeg, tiff, bmp.
+>
+
+```js
+const backgroundImage = 'https://linkToImageFile'; 
+
+// Create the effect instance 
+const backgroundReplacementEffect = new BackgroundReplacementEffect({ 
+    backgroundImageUrl: backgroundImage
+}); 
+
+// Recommended: Check support
+const backgroundReplacementSupported = await backgroundReplacementEffect.isSupported(); 
+
+if (backgroundReplacementSupported) { 
+    // Use the video effects feature api as before to start/stop effects 
+    await videoEffectsFeatureApi.startEffects(backgroundReplacementEffect); 
+}
+```
+
+Changing the image for this effect can be done by passing it in in the configure method:
+```js
+const newBackgroundImage = 'https://linkToNewImageFile'; 
+
+await backgroundReplacementEffect.configure({ 
+    backgroundImageUrl: newBackgroundImage
+});
+```
+
+Switching effects can be done using the same method on the video effects feature api:
+```js
+// Switch to background blur 
+await videoEffectsFeatureApi.startEffects(backgroundBlurEffect); 
+
+// Switch to background replacement 
+await videoEffectsFeatureApi.startEffects(backgroundReplacementEffect);
+```
+
+To stop effects:
+```js
+await videoEffectsFeatureApi.stopEffects();
+```