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What photos do you mean by big photos?

A big photo refers to a photo with the head and shoulders above as the main body, which is generally used for documents and the like.

Big head stickers, known as sticker photos in Hong Kong and Macau, are very popular photography methods in Japan and China, mostly taking selfies. Japan プリクラ (プリント), that is, the printing press.

brief introduction

The invention of head sticking machine is controversial in China. Tang Jun, the former president of Microsoft China, claimed to have invented the prototype of the head sticker. He claimed that he sold the patent to a Japanese company for $500,000.

Because Miss Sasaki loves all kinds of stickers, although the original idea was born in women, the actual research and development and production were completed by male programmers, so the idea of combining photography with stickers came into being.

Subsequently, the printer "printing club" blew a whirlwind of "snapping up" in Japan. After Atlas became popular, SNK, Taitung, Epoch, Make Software, Hitachi and other manufacturers successively shared this market pie, and successively developed and improved the styles of various pasting machines, which promoted the competition in the same industry and spread to Taiwan Province Province, Chinese mainland, South Korea and all over the world.