Patent ID: 7804524

Claim:
A method for editing images on a digital image processing apparatus, the method comprising: (a) in response to a shutter-release button of the digital image processing apparatus being pressed a single time, capturing a plurality of photographic images; (b) recognizing the plurality of images as having been captured in a continuous shooting mode of the digital image processing apparatus; (b1) for each of the plurality of images, creating a file in which the image is stored, thereby resulting in a plurality of files; (b2) for each of the plurality of files, inserting an identification number of the image into the file so that the image is recognizable by the digital image processing apparatus as an image that was captured in the continuous shooting mode; (b3) based on the identification number, determining which image of the plurality of images is a first of the plurality of images to have been captured; (b4) based on the identification number, determining which image of the plurality of images is a last of the plurality of images to have been captured; (c) retrieving all of the images from the first image to the last image; and (d) applying the selected editing operation to all of the retrieved images.