Patent ID: 8280156

Claim:
An album creating apparatus comprising: a captured position specifying section that specifies a captured position at which a captured image constituting an album is taken; a background selecting section that selects a texture and color in a portion except the captured image in the album based on the captured position specified by said captured position specifying section; a background adding section that uses the texture and color selected by said background selecting section to add color to the portion except the captured image in the album; and a background information acquiring section that acquires a photograph of a place corresponding to the captured position, the photograph being opened on a network, and acquires, from the acquired photograph, at least one of color information or texture information that is characteristic of the captured position, analyzes the acquired photograph to estimate a state of land of the captured position, and acquires at least one of color information or texture information that is characteristic of the captured position based on a result of the estimation of the state of land.