least one picture to provide a hint at the source or event that has been photographed the facial aspects of the invention will first be considered with respect to fig2 5 followed by consideration of the text aspect with respect to fig6 8 referring to fig2 the emphasis image selection process begins with an image collection 200 that is compiled as a collection of digital images if the images are captured from a digital camera then the initial collection and the digital collection are identical in the case where the images are in hard copy or on a roll of film they must undergo processing and scanning by a scanner 202 in order to arrive in a digital format the collection of images which are processed by a computer 204 and its accompanying software are sorted according to the invention in terms of their suitability for being most representative of the collection there are several uses for this sorted list of images as an example the top ranked image can be printed out and used as a u201c cover image u201d 206 for the collection this image may be used as a visual means for sorting through a collection of image collections referring to fig3.