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»  Adjusting the lighting of your image
»  Removing red eye from your image
»  Keep track of your originals
Printing an edited photo

Introduction

You had the birthday party to remember. Problem was all your photos were taken in low light and all your friends are either silhouettes or have glaring red eyes. Thankfully, HP Photosmart Essential allows you to improve poor lighting and eliminate red-eye.

Adjusting the lighting of your image

Double-click a photo in the Library to enlarge it on your screen and display the editing options. The editing options allow you to remove red eye, rotate or crop photos, add filters and more.

Choose Temperature and move the slider to increase the color temperature of your photo by increasing the amount of blue or red.

Click Adaptive Lighting to add detail to shadowed or backlit areas.

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Removing red eye from your image

A photo with red eye removed "Red eye" usually occurs when you photograph a person in a dim environment using a flash. People with light-colored eyes are more likely to have red eyes in photos. To help avoid red eye, have your subject look at a light before you take the photo.

Red eye fix: Move your cursor over the photo to display the magnifying tool. Hover the target in the center of the tool over the red eye instance you want to fix and then click. Click Save when you have fixed all red eye instances in your photo.

You can also correct a pet's green eye effect. Learn how.

Tip: HP Photosmart Essential allows editing at any point as you create beautiful images while the Auto Fix feature can make photos better as they print. Plus, you can save or cancel any changes you make to your photo.

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Keep track of your originals

Sometimes when you're editing a photo, it seems like the original gets lost. With this version of HP Photosmart Essential you can select different viewing options while editing.

Along with that, HP Photosmart Essential eliminates the problem of losing the original on your computer by automatically saving your original (using the format "imagename.jpg.orig") when you modify a photo. You'll never have to worry about losing an image again because you can always undo all of your changes to get back to the original image.

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