System for creating on a computer display screen composite images from diverse sources

Art interactive system for permitting a user with a computer and display screen to design and generate, through a global communication network connection with a server, a web page composite image suitable for high quality printing, said image including graphical images and text, said system comprising:

• means for permitting the user to selectively create said composite image within a predetermined area on the display screen,
• files for producing a plurality of high resolution images and text stored at a server software storage area remote from the user,
• means for permitting the user to selectively download through a browser said files for producing individual lines of text and graphical images and to incorporate said lines of text and selected graphical images into any selected position in said predetermined area on the display screen, said means for producing lines of text including means for permitting the user to originate the specific content of each line of text by typing it on the display screen during the image creating process,
• means for permitting the user to individually vary the sizes and relative positions of each line of text and each selected graphical image within said predetermined area of the display screen to create a complete composite image to the user's specifications,
• means for transmitting from the user to the server said complete composite image in its selected component parts and their respective locations within the predetermined area of the display screen,
• means at the server for storing said component parts of the complete composite image in a computer/web protocol that permits the image to be output by the server in a variety of different formats,
• and means at the server utilizing said computer/web protocol for providing a high resolution image of said complete composite image suitable for high quality printing,
• means for permitting the user to download said files causes the framing representation of each file to be initially located in a particular orientation at a specific position in said predetermined area on the display screen so that later changes by the user in such position will be recorded by the user for transmittal back to the server.

A method for permitting a user with a computer and display screen to create on-line with a server through his browser and a global communication network a composite image from diverse sources, said composite image being suitable for high quality printing output, said method comprising:

• providing a collection of high resolution graphical images at the server and permitting said user to selectively download through his browser representations of various of said high resolution graphical images,
• providing at the server downloadable program through a browser to said user to permit the user to permit the user to create said composite image in a predetermined area on the user's display screen, said program including means for permitting the user within said predetermined area of the display screen to vary the size of each selected graphical image and move it to any position in said predetermined area of the display screen, said program further including means to permit the user to originate and sequentially add one or more lines of text to the predetermined area of the display screen and to resize and individually selectively reposition each of said lines of text to any position within said predetermined area,
• providing means for permitting the user to transmit the composite image back to the server with all changes in size and repositioning of each of the downloaded lines of text and graphical images being correlated to a specific initial location within the predetermined area on the display screen so that the composite image can be accurately recreated at the server,
• and saving at the server the completed composite image from the user in each of its line of text and graphical image component parts so that the composite image can be recreated at the server as a high resolution image suitable for high quality printing.