Patent ID: 8467104

Claim:
An image processing method comprising the steps of: designating a color comparing condition for a color chart having a plurality of color patches; generating image data to print the color chart in which color patches having colors corresponding respectively to different variables of the designated color comparing condition are disposed adjacent to each other; printing the color chart with a printing machine based on the generated image data; entering color values of a designated color; and converting colors of a print to be produced by the printing machine, based on color values of one of the color patches whose color is selected as a color closest to the designated color from the printed color chart and based on the entered color values of the designated color; wherein the color comparing condition includes a type of observational light source, and wherein the one of the color patches whose color is closest to the designated color is selected under a predetermined observational light source from those of the color patches in the color chart which correspond to the type of the predetermined observational light source.