Patent ID: 7557950

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a photo editor configured to cause desired editing operations to be carried out on image data, configured to cause working color profiles indicating working color spaces for editing operations to be automatically set for the image data, and configured to cause, after completion of editing operations, the edited image data to be output with the linked working color profiles; printers; and a print controller configured to create print image data using the edited image data and configured to print using the created print image data, and configured to carry out color matching on the edited image data using the working color profile linked to the edited image data and the printer color profile indicating color spaces for the printer when the print image is created; wherein the photo editor is configured to detect an original color profile linked to the image data, and select the working color profile from one of (1) through (3), below: (1) the detected original color profile, (2) color profiles substantially corresponding to color profiles for display monitors, and (3) user-specified color profiles; wherein the photo editor is configured to carry out color matching on the image data using the original color profile and the working color profile before beginning editing operations when the original color profile is different from the working color profile.