System and method of constructing a photo album

摘要

A method of constructing a photo album wherein a plurality of digital images are provided in a low resolution format as either thumbnail index sketches or sticker sheets that have a unique identifier that cross references the reduced resolution images digital images with a high resolution version that is stored in a data base. The thumbnail index sketches have a selection mechanism that allows the creation of photo albums by cross referencing the high resolution images that are stored in the data base. The embodiment that employs stickers has various mechanisms for creating the pages of a photo album including a second set of sticker sheets that function as pages of a photoalbum having positions for the low resolution image stickers. The sticker sheet pages can also be stickers themselves allowing for creation of photo albums by arranging the stickers pages are loaded with low resolution stickers creating the pages for the photoalbum and the sticker sheet pages are then arranged in a desired manner on a page layout form resulting in a miniature version of the photoalbum which can be viewed at that point. The miniature version of the photo album is then correlated to the high resolution version of the images stored in the database to retrieve a high resolution version of the photo album which is then produced using conventional photofinishing techniques.