Interactive guest image capture using video wall/floor/ceiling displays for selections of background scenes, and selection/distribution of customized souvenir portfolios including merged images/sound

A method comprising:

• using one or more cameras to take guest images of one or more guests at a facility and providing background scene images;
• computer-processing the guest images with a computer system;
• computer-merging the guest images into the background scene images with a computer system to form merged images;
• and
• assembling customized souvenir portfolios that include at least some of the merged images,
• wherein said computer-processing comprises using pattern recognition to generate a metric related to a number of people in respective images of said guest images and charging for the customized souvenir portfolios by adjusting charges in relation to said metric.

An automated system comprising:

• a guest facility that comprises an automated camera system configured to take guest images;
• a source of background scene images;
• a system control computer configured to direct the camera system to take one or more guest images of said guests;
• a video display surface showing said background scene images and chroma key images at different times;
• and
• an image processing computer configured to receive and process said one or more guest images and to merge the one or more guest images with selected ones of the background scene images, thereby forming merged images of guests inserted into selected background scene images.