Multi-element image templates
View Patent ↗A system for making an image product includes a computer including a processor and a memory, a template stored in the memory, the template including a template graphic and a plurality of openings in the template graphic, an image stored in the memory, and the processor compositing the image into two or more of the plurality of openings, so that two different portions of the image are located in two different openings and the two different portions have the same relative locations in the composition as in the user image.
1. A system for making an image product, comprising:
a computer including a processor and a memory;
a template stored in the memory, the template including a template graphic and a plurality of different openings in the template graphic, each opening surrounded by at least a portion of the template graphic;
a single image stored in the memory; and
the processor compositing the image into two or more of the plurality of different openings in the template graphic, so that two different portions of the single image are located in two different openings in the template graphic and the two different portions of the single image have the same relative locations in the composition as in the single image.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the template is a multi-page template.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the template is a two-page template.
4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the two-page template has one opening on each of the two pages, with a first portion of a first image on a first page, a second portion of the first image on the second page, and the first and second portions of the first image have the same relative locations in the composition as in the first image.
5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the two-page template has two openings on each of the two pages, with a first portion of a second image on the first page, a second portion of the second image on the second page, and the first and second portions of the second image have the same relative locations in the composition as in the second image.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the two openings on each page are different from each other.
7. The system of claim 2 , wherein two of the openings are separated by a gutter.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the template is a multi-page template with two openings.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the template incorporates one or more images.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the template incorporates designed graphic elements.
11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processor modifies the position or size of one or more openings in the template.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor receives an object selection or object type selection, analyzes the image for the selected objects or object types, and selects or modifies the template in response to the image analysis.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the two different portions have the same relative locations in the composition in a single dimension as in the image.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the size of one dimension of at least one of the openings is constrained while the size of a second dimension is determined by the aspect ratio of the selected image.