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Simply drag-and-drop your photos
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» Select your photos
» Edit the photos
» Choose an album template
» Drag-and-drop your photos
» Print the album
A family using free HP Photosmart Essential photo software and HP digital photography products to print photos

HP Photosmart Essential gives you an easy way to turn your digital photos into a scrapbook, brag book or a beautiful album. You get to choose from several templates in which to drag-and-drop your photos. Get creative with various sized photos on an album page or print individual family portraits all on one page.

Select your photos


While viewing photos in HP Photosmart Essential, you simply click on the images you would like to include on an album page. The selected photos will appear as thumbnails at the bottom of the screen. You can always return to select more photos even after you've started an album page.

» Read more about selecting photos

Edit the photos


Prepare your photos for an album page by removing red-eye, changing the lighting, cropping or applying a special filter. To help you out, the Album feature can Auto Fix your photos before printing the page. Click on the Edit tab and fix your photos as you desire.

» Read more about editing photos

Choose an album template


Click on the Album Pages icon within the Create tab. There are dozens of album templates available for you with varying sizes and layouts for your photos. Choose a template that best suits your album need.

Drag-and-drop your photos


All of the images you selected earlier appear on the left side of the screen. If you're missing a photo or two, return to the View tab and select more photos.

Drag-and-drop your photos from the left side of the screen into the album template. You can do this by holding down the left mouse button over a photo and dragging it into the album page. Once an image is in the template, you can move it around to different positions to select the best crop. You can also rotate or remove the photo from the album by right-clicking the image with your mouse pointer.

It's that easy!

Print the album


Woman print photos with free HP Photosmart Essential photo software and HP digital photography products Great! You've had fun creating an album page...and now you'd like to print it. If you would like HP Photosmart Essential to fix the photos for you, select the "Auto fix images" box on the right side of the screen.

Make sure that the correct paper size and printer settings are selected. You can also print multiple copies of the album page to share with friends and families.


Learn more


HP Photosmart Essential helps you get great prints without having to buy anything new. With this fast, free download, you'll not only save time and money, but you'll also get the power to create professional-looking prints in a snap!

»  Download the new version of HP Photosmart Essential

Support


HP provides online support for HP Photosmart Essential, so you can be assured of the same great service you've come to expect from HP.

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