Patent ID: 8923551

Claim:
A server, communicably coupled with a communications network, for automatically creating a photo-based project based on photo analysis and image metadata, the server comprising a processor, a data repository having multimedia content, and a non-transitory physical medium comprising executable instructions for: establishing a client-server connection between the server and a user-device connected to the communication network; receiving a plurality of images from the user-device, reading embedded metadata from the plurality of images, and storing said plurality of images in the data repository; performing user analysis on an expected user of the photo-based project based on data from a social media platform; performing photo analysis on the plurality of images in the data repository to determine a visual content and relevant metadata in the images based at least on the images and the user analysis; customizing the photo-based project automatically by performing one or more automatic customization actions based on the visual content in and the relevant metadata in the plurality of images; placing the plurality of images automatically in one or more particular page layouts of the photo based project based on the customization performed; and generating a printed product comprising the plurality of images based on the customization performed.