It is a bit of both. If you are going to Cinderellas Royal Table, Akershus or any of the dining where they take your picture before you are seated, these are taken by a Disney photographer and those pictures will be in your memory maker. The characters that come to your table while dining, you have to photograph yourself. Except with Stitch at Ohana, which has the Disney photographer take a picture of your whole family and it showed up in our memory maker.