HP Image Zone

HP Image Zone is a photo management and editing program from HP that was supplied with HP printers, scanners and cameras. It lets users organize, edit, print and share their photos from one window.

Features:

• The software is free and was distributed with the drivers and software of HP devices.
• The HP Image Zone Express version has View, Edit, Print, Create and HP Instant Share tabs.
• Released by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
• Basic editing tools such as cropping, rotating, red-eye removal and automatic fixes.
• Print options for paper size, paper type, number of copies and crop to fit.

It brings photo browsing, basic fixes and photo printing on HP printers together in one simple program.

Have some photos on your computer that you want to sort, fix and print? HP Image Zone shows all your images in a thumbnail view that can be sorted by date, searched and tagged with keywords, and you can collect pictures in My Selections before editing or printing them. New pictures are added with the Get Images button, and the Search button helps find photos in a large collection. Editing, printing and sharing are all available from the tabs at the top of the window, and the Image Information panel shows the file name and date of the selected photo.

HP Image Zone is no longer developed. Later versions of the program were renamed HP Photosmart Essential, and HP eventually replaced them with HP Photo Creations. The old program is still useful for people who keep an older HP printer or scanner, and it can still be installed on newer versions of Windows, bridging the barrier between legacy devices and modern systems.

The Create tab offers projects such as album pages and collages with ready-made layouts, including borderless 4 x 6-inch and 5 x 7-inch templates, while HP Instant Share was used to e-mail photos, order prints and publish web albums. The online services behind HP Instant Share are no longer available, so today only the local features work.