Patent ID: 7961257

Claim:
A color adjusting apparatus, comprising: a first storage unit for storing information indicating a hue (color phase) range arbitrarily designated in a hue space; a second storage unit for storing an adjustment value for adjusting a degree of color shift in the hue range; a third storage unit for storing information indicating a hue range arbitrarily designated in a hue space; a fourth storage unit for storing an adjustment value for lightness in the hue range; a color conversion unit for performing expansion processing or compression processing on a color component of input image data, the color component being associated with the hue range, in accordance with the degree of color shift determined by the adjustment value; and a lightness adjusting unit for increasing or decreasing a lightness component of a chromatic color in the input image data, the lightness component being associated with the hue range, in accordance with the adjustment value, and not increasing or decreasing a lightness component of an achromatic color in the input image data.