Patent ID: 7969606

Claim:
A system for distributing consumer photograph-based advertisements and/or information, the system being implemented by at least one computer including at least one processor and comprising: a user information database accessible by a computer that stores a user's information and user's photograph; an advertisement database accessible by a computer that stores advertisement images and target audience criteria, allowing an advertiser to specify the target audience criteria, wherein the advertisement database includes an algorithm that selects advertisement images from the advertisement database based on the target audience criteria; a layout template database accessible by a computer that stores layout templates, each layout template including a user's photograph area and one or more advertisement image area; a layout template generator, implemented by the at least one processor, that selects a layout template from the layout template database for each user's photograph; and an image composition engine, implemented by the at least one processor, that combines the selected advertisement images with the user's photograph using the selected layout template to compose a new composed image, wherein the new composed image includes the user's photograph and the selected advertisement images, wherein each layout template has a different placement of the user's photograph and one or more advertising images so that the user cannot clip out the one or more advertising images with a single cut.