Patent ID: 7855737

Claim:
A method of making an image in a digital camera, the method comprising the following steps, not necessarily in the order stated: (a) capturing a first digital image of a scene into which a camera user is to be inserted (“first image”), (b) before capturing a second digital image including the camera user, superimposing on the first image a subject locator that comprises a symbol (“subject locator”) representing at least a part of a human subject, (c) also before capturing the second digital image including the camera user, scaling the subject locator to a desired size and moving it to a desired position relative to the first image, (d) capturing the second digital image including of the camera user (“second image”), (e) extracting at least the part of the second image represented by the subject locator, (f) scaling the part of the second image represented by the subject locator to substantially the same size as the subject locator, and (g) inserting the scaled extracted part of the second image into the first image at the position of the subject locator.