Album creating apparatus, album creating method and program therefor

摘要

An album creating apparatus for creating an album with an appropriate layout dependent on the content of the image. The album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes: an album template storage section for storing a plurality of album templates to define the design form of an album; a unit template storage section for storing a plurality of unit templates to define each design form for partial layout regions continued in each of the plurality of album templates stored in the album template storage section; a unit template selecting section for selecting one unit template from a plurality of album templates stored in the unit template storage section based on the content of the image in each image group classified into each layout region dependent on the content of the image placed on the album; and a layout section for laying out the image included in each image group into the layout region in the unit template selected by the unit template selecting section.