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Creative Effects

Add photo frames, clip art, captions and more to your photos
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Introduction

The creative effects featured in the HP Photosmart A636 and A646 compact photo printers give you over 200 ways to enhance and personalize your photos right in your printer.
Introduction
Draw or write captions, add decorative frames and clipart, create album pages and photo stickers, make slideshows with colour effects—these are just a few of the many ways that you can personalize or enhance any photo.

Frames

Frames
Adding a decorative frame can make your photo stand out. Choose from various patterns and colors in the printer to make a frame. Choose from 80 different frames:
• 36 seasons
• 14 kids
• 18 daily life
• 12 special events

Clipart

Clipart
You can choose from a variety of clipart categories to give any photo an artistic feel.
Clipart categories include 29 seasons, 28 kids, 20 daily life and 16 special events.

Album pages

Album pages
You can easily put photos in album layouts that are already created. Then simply print and insert into a photo book.
Album page categories include 6 seasons, 7 kids, 10 daily life and 8 special events.

Design gallery

Design gallery
With HP Design Gallery, you can add a wide range of exciting artistic effects to your photos—right in your printer.
• Black & White
• Sepia
• Antique
• Metallicize
• Solarize
The printer provides a variety of preferences and effects that can improve the quality of printed photos.
• Photo fix
• Slimming
• Cropping

Drawing

Drawing
With the included stylus, you can write or draw to give photos a personal touch.
You can choose from 3 line thicknesses and 6 colours.

Captions

Captions
Using the stylus, you can create captions for your photos.
You can choose from 5 fonts and 6 colours.

Passports

Passports
For vacations, business trips or just visiting relatives, you can select the perfect photo to put on their passport. Each printer sheet contains as many copies of a photo as will fit on the page, depending on the passport photo size selected.

CD/DVD labels

CD/DVD labels
CD/DVD labels can be used to dress up gift discs and those commemorating special events, or to simply spice up a CD/DVD collection.