HP Photosmart Essential is a program for Windows designed to help users edit, print, tag, as well as share and organize images and videos on a personal computer. All of the aforementioned actions are done via intuitive wizard-style graphical user interface.

Overview

The application allows you to edit digital photographs in a variety of ways. For example, you can rotate, crop, flip, resize or remove red eyes. What is more, you have the ability to adjust the color temperature or modify the adaptive lighting. It is also possible to apply different special effects, such as Black and White or Sepia. Additionally, you are able to enhance the picture resolution. This is commonly done to reduce the pixelated appearance of low-res images.

Printing capabilities

The photo printing process is quite straightforward. First of all, you need to choose between two types of output sizes, namely, Simple Print or Photo Template. After that step, you can zoom, move, rotate and reposition your pictures the way you want. Similar to HP Image Zone Express, this software supports such image file formats as GIF, PNG, JPEG and BMP.

Multimedia organizer

The program serves as a convenient photo and video manager. You have the ability to view multimedia files, create albums, search for new items and tag images for faster search. Also, you have the option to import pictures from digital cameras, mobile phones, removable drives, compact discs and local folders.

Features

free to download and use;
compatible with modern Windows versions;
gives you the ability to manage and edit pictures;
it is possible to import content from a variety of devices;
supports a wide range of image file formats.