Picture combining method, terminal, and picture combining system

A terminal for creating a collage among members of a chat group of a social networking application, the terminal comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a display;
• memory;
• and
• a plurality of programs stored in the memory, the plurality of programs including an image processing application associated with the social networking application that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the terminal to perform the following operations:
• detecting a request from a user of the terminal for creating a collage, wherein the user is a member of the chat group of the social networking application;
• in response to the user request, rendering a graphical user interface on the display of the terminal, the graphical user interface including a plurality of candidate collage templates;
• detecting a user selection of one of the candidate collage templates;
• in response to the user selection, rendering the user-selected collage template in the graphical user interface;
• generating a first collage using the user-selected collage template after receiving a user-selected picture for a predefined location in the user-selected collage template;
• generating a configuration file used for describing the first collage;
• and
• submitting the first collage and the configuration file to the social networking application, wherein the social networking application is configured to forward the first collage and the configuration file to another member of the chat group when there are one or more blank sections in the first collage and the other member of the chat group is configured to update the first collage by adding at least one picture to one of the one or more blank sections until there is no blank section in the first collage.

A non-transitory computer storage medium in connection with a terminal having one or more processors and a display, storing a plurality of programs, wherein the plurality of programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the terminal to perform the following plurality of operations:

• detecting a request from a user of the terminal for creating a collage, wherein the user is a member of the chat group of the social networking application;
• in response to the user request, rendering a graphical user interface on the display of the terminal, the graphical user interface including a plurality of candidate collage templates;
• detecting a user selection of one of the candidate collage templates;
• in response to the user selection, rendering the user-selected collage template in the graphical user interface;
• generating a first collage using the user-selected collage template after receiving a user-selected picture for a predefined location in the user-selected collage template;
• generating a configuration file used for describing the first collage;
• and
• submitting the first collage and the configuration file to the social networking application, wherein the social networking application is configured to forward the first collage and the configuration file to another member of the chat group when there are one or more blank sections in the first collage and the other member of the chat group is configured to update the first collage by adding at least one picture to one of the one or more blank sections until there is no blank section in the first collage.