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»  Share your photos online with your free Snapfish account
»  Email your photos the easy way
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Share your photos, make memories last

You've captured a moment. Maybe it's your baby's first steps. Maybe it's a candid photo of your dog at the park. Or the weekend in Paris you'll never forget. Whatever they are, those moments deserve to be shared. HP Photosmart Essential lets you share your memories with friends and family.

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Share your photos online with your free Snapfish account

Publish your photos to an online photo album on a secure Web site (Snapfish in the U.S. and U.K.) where you can share them with family and friends. They can view your photos as a slideshow, share, print, and purchase from the widest selection of photo gift items available anywhere. Sharing photos this way means no large e-mails. Just select the photos and recipients in HP Photosmart Essential.

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Email your photos the easy way

The basic email feature lets you use your own default email program to send photos to friends and family. It automatically copies and optimizes the size of your selected photo making it easy and fast to send. Everyone benefits with reduced download time and uncluttered email inboxes.

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How to share with HP Photosmart Essential

Your choices for sharing your photos depend on your country/region. Click the Share icon to do the following:

Add the photos in the photo tray to an existing album you have already published online.

Add a group of selected photos and create a photo album online.

E-mail the photos in the photo tray as attachments using your default e-mail program (like Outlook Express). Select the photos and the recipients in HP Photosmart Essential, your e-mail program will handle the sending process.

Note: You may want to limit the number of photos you send to prevent potential problems with e-mail message size limits or lengthy upload and download times.

Make sure you are connected to the Internet, since sharing requires a live Internet connection.

The following e-mail programs can be used with HP Photosmart Essential to send photos as attachments:

  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Outlook Express
  • Lotus Notes
  • Eudora
  • AOL 7.0 or higher
  • Hotmail (requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher)

Note: Because of security features built into Windows, if you initiate an Outlook or Outlook Express e-mail through the e-mail feature, you must either send the e-mail or cancel out of the new message before returning to HP Photosmart Essential or your e-mail program.

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