Patent ID: 7167205

Claim:
An image processing method which performs various image correction processes to a photographed image and prints the photographed image, comprising the steps of: inputting image information to which photographing condition information is added; analyzing the characteristic of the input image information; performing an image correction process on the photographed image on the basis of the characteristic of the analyzed image information; discriminating the photographing condition information added to the photographed image; and determining an image correction process to be performed in a step of performing the image correction process on the basis of the photographing condition information discriminated in said discriminating step, wherein it is discriminated whether the photographing condition information regarding exposure of the photographed image is automatic exposure or manual exposure in said discriminating step, if it is discriminated that it is the automatic exposure, an image correction algorithm of performing an image correction process regarding brightness is selected, and if it is discriminated that it is the manual exposure, an image correction algorithm of not performing the image correction process regarding brightness is selected in said determining step.