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HP Photosmart Essential 3.0
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A quick guide to doing more with your digital photos.


Photosmart Essential is free, easy-to-use photo software that allows you to easily organize, edit, print, share and enjoy your photos in a snap.

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Make more of your magic moments with Photosmart Essential Version 3.0

What's new in version 3.0?
  • New interface combines simplicity with elegance, making it a pleasure to easily enjoy your photos.
  • Find, organize and enjoy your photos with ease by date, tags, folders and favorites.
  • Personalized home page provides quick access to your most recent photos.
  • Fix photos in a jiffy with great edit tools like automatic red eye and pet eye correction.
  • Easily share photos securely online without large attachments at Snapfish*, a service of HP.
  • Print Lab quality photos at home - The first time, every time.
  • Optional on-screen guides provide support and hints for digital photography beginners.
» Download Photosmart Essential Version 3.0 today
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Organize your life

People using HP products to print digital photos The convenience of digital photography means you can capture more moments than ever. The problem is finding a way to manage them all. Let HP Photosmart Essential create a library of your photos to automatically organize them for you. Intuitive icons make it easy to mark your favorites, add tags to your photos, and group them any way you like for fast, easy retrieval.
  • Your personalized home page provides quick access to your most recent photos
  • Browse entire image catalog by date, tag, folders or favorites
  • View thumbnails or quickly zoom to larger views and even slideshows with music
  • Sort by date, name or recently viewed

Share the love

People using HP Photosmart Essential software to share digital photos online What's a memory if you can't share it with those you care about the most? You can bring family and friends closer with Photosmart Essential and Snapfish*, the leading online photo service from HP—making it easy for everyone to view, make comments, print, purchase gift items, and more.
  • Share photos without the burden of large attachments
  • Upload photos to online albums to be viewed individually or as a slideshow
  • Albums are located on one secure website for family and friends to visit
  • E-mail photo thumbnails or links to photos (smaller file size)
  • Integrate e-mails with Microsoft Outlook address book

Print your favorites

A man enjoying a photo With Photosmart Essential and HP printers, ink, and paper, you get lab quality prints at home every time, exactly as you want them. You can preview your photo print jobs and easily crop, zoom, or make color adjustments before you print them. All printer settings are preset for lab quality prints so you get great results with your HP printer, new or old. Let HP Photosmart Essential do all the work.
  • Active preview lets you easily make those final edits before you print
  • Quickly, easily print common sizes or select print templates, perfect for placement in bound albums
  • Printer settings preset for lab-quality photos
  • Order prints online and stock up on HP supplies quickly

Edit and restore your memories

Take a not-so-great photo and improve it. You can fix photos in a jiffy with great edit tools like automatic red eye correction, and pet eye correction, and black & white or sepia effects. Improving the quality of your photos has never been easier with a one-click color, lighting, and quality fix. Get the photos you want with before and after edit views.
  • Automatically fix red-eye, crop, rotate, flip
  • Improve photos with one button Auto Fix
  • Enhance low-resolution camera phone images
  • Convert color photos to B&W or Sepia
  • Apply HP Adaptive Lighting
  • Select warmer/cooler color

System requirements

An HP notebook PC PC with Pentium II 300 MHz or higher processor, Microsoft® Windows XP1 or Microsoft® Windows Vista®, Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, minimum 128 MB RAM and 95 MB free, 16.6 MB download hard drive space for installation.

How to get it

A woman using HP Photosmart Essential software The software is free and fast to download—less than a minute on a broadband connection.

1 Macintosh support is not available at this time.
* Not available in all countries/regions
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