Patent ID: 8412589

Claim:
A method for creating a design for an image product, comprising: storing a predetermined criterion in a computer system for automatic image product creation; automatically identifying, based on the predetermined criterion by the computer system, a blog page that includes an image, text, or designs to be used in an image product, wherein the predetermined criterion is based at least in part on numbers of views received by blog pages, or on numbers of votes received by blog pages, images, text or design objects on the blog pages; automatically incorporating, by the computer system, at least one of the image, text, or a design object in the blog page into a layout of the image product to create a design of the image product, wherein the step of automatically incorporating comprises obtaining numbers of views received by blog pages, or obtaining numbers of votes on blog pages, images, text, or design objects, wherein the step of automatically incorporating comprises selecting one of the blog pages based on the number of views, or selecting one of the blog pages, or at least one of the images, text, or the design objects on the blog pages to be used in the image product based on the number of votes; and allowing a user to review the design of the image product created by the computer system, wherein the computer system is configured to communicate with a printing finishing facility at which a physical image product is to be made according to the design of the image product.