Patent ID: 8760720

Claim:
An image processing apparatus that executes color correction on image data, comprising: a pixel extracting unit that extracts a pixel belonging to a previously designated color range, from image data of a correction object; a target color storage unit that stores a plurality of target colors to be associated with the previously designated color range; a target color selection receiving unit that receives a selection of one target color by a user from among the plurality of target colors stored in the target color storage unit; a color correction executing unit that executes color correction on the image data of the correction object, based on a color of a pixel extracted by the pixel extracting unit and a target color selected through the target color selection receiving unit; a registration image storage unit that stores image data including a target color of a registration object; a target color extracting unit that extracts the target color of the registration object from image data stored in the registration image storage unit; and a target color registration unit that registers the target color of the registration object extracted by the target color extracting unit in the target color storage unit to be associated with the previously designated color range.