Patent ID: 8237819

Claim:
A method of operating a digital image capture device comprising: storing a plurality of digital image template files in a memory of the capture device, each of the digital image template files including features of a digital image template, a number, location, and shape of openings in the digital image template, and image attribute requirements associated with each of the openings, the openings each for disposing a digital image; displaying on a display screen of the image capture device the plurality of digital image templates, each of the digital image templates selectable by a user; capturing and storing an image in the memory of the image capture device, the captured image including image attributes associated therewith; automatically digitally disposing the captured image into one of the openings in a digital image template wherein the image attribute requirements associated with said one of the openings is satisfied by the image attributes associated with the captured image, including automatically searching other images stored in the memory of the image capture device, each having image attributes associated therewith, and identifying at least one other image that may be digitally placed into at least one other remaining opening in the digital image template, wherein image attributes associated with the at least one other identified image satisfy the image attribute requirements associated with said at least one other remaining opening, including modifying the image attribute requirements associated with said at least one other remaining opening based upon extracted image attributes of the captured image; and storing a file comprising the digital image template together with the captured image and the at least one other identified image digitally disposed therein.