Restoring photos to beauty with
HP Photosmart Essential

Improve color and quality in a snap!

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A couple using free HP Photosmart Essential photo software and HP digital photography products to restore photos

Introduction

	Photos are souvenirs of your life experiences. Unfortunately, not all of them live up to the way you remember them. Now you enhance, correct, and restore your photos so they look the way you remember them. Whether it's a scan of your faded prom portrait, a darkened photo of an Italian sunset, or that camera phone shot of your dog when he was a puppy, HP Photosmart Essential makes restoring your favorite memories a snap. The restoration features of HP Photosmart Essential give you the ability to turn a memento into a picture perfect memory worth saving, sharing and printing.


Select your photos

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 improve image quality.

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Enhance low-resolution photos

A before and after comparison of a photo restored using HP Photosmart Essential

Sometimes a photo scanner or older camera produces a less-than-perfect image. The Enhance Resolution button appears if you are editing a low-resolution photo. Use this option to reduce the pixilated appearance of low-resolution photos, giving you a much better digital-quality photo. Print and share all you want.

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Bring a photo back to life

For photos that seem dull or have lost color over time, click the Photo Fix button to make automatic brightness, contrast, and color adjustments to your photo. Photo Fix also provides a smooth glossy feel to your photos by removing noise and smoothing out the edges.

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Edit to perfection

The other editing features of HP Photosmart Essential allow you to rotate, crop, straighten, flip, fix red eye or pet eye, change color temperature, and enhance lighting. You can even apply special effects like black and white or sepia filters to give your photos a unique touch.

Tip You can save or cancel any changes you make to your photo.

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