ALBM File

What are ALBM files and how to open them

Are you having problems opening an ALBM file or are you simply curious about its contents? We're here to explain the properties of these files and provide you with software that can open or handle your ALBM files.

What is an ALBM file?

An .ALBM file is a HP Photosmart Photo Printing Album file.

HP Photosmart Photo Printing Album files are digital photo album archives produced by HP's Photo Printing or PhotoSmart Essential software. These files store collections of photos along with the album layout, thumbnails, pages, and metadata; they are intended for organizing and printing sets of images together as albums.

The album format is created when a user makes a photo album project in HP's legacy programs. Within the album, individual images are embedded (often as common image formats inside the container) together with page definitions, image placements, captions or annotations, and album-level settings. The software that created the album is also typically used to export or print the content; extracting the images requires special tools or HP's original application.

ALBM files follow a compound file structure (Microsoft's OLE / Compound Document format). They include multiple streams such as one holding album attributes, streams for storing pages layout, image storage, and metadata streams for image IDs, attributes, annotations, etc. A recognizable signature is present at the very beginning (bytes D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1 00) and several embedded ASCII field names appear at fixed offsets, such as ImagesStore, PagesStore, AlbumAttributesStream, IdStream, PhotoStore, PageStore, and others.

How to open ALBM files

Important: Different programs may use files with the ALBM file extension for different purposes, so unless you are sure which format your ALBM file is, you may need to try a few different programs.

While we have not verified the apps ourselves yet, our users have suggested two different ALBM openers which you will find listed below.

Last updated: August 17, 2026

Various apps that use files with this extension

These apps are known to open certain types of ALBM files. Remember, different programs may use ALBM files for different purposes, so you may need to try out a few of them to be able to open your specific file.

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