Patent ID: 8139257

Claim:
An image editing apparatus comprising: an input unit to input an image data; an area identifying unit to separate input the image data into each image area corresponding to attributes; a processing unit to process each image area corresponding to the attribute associated with each image area; an editing unit to perform an editing process on the image data in units for each image area; a first operation displaying unit to display a first screen that displays the image data, the first screen to receive a selection of an image area while not accepting edits to the image data, and a second screen that displays edited image data edited in the image area units in a data format corresponding to the attribute of the image area by the editing unit; a receiving unit to receive a change of setting of the attribute corresponding to the image area which is displayed in the second screen; and a second operation displaying unit to display the image area processed corresponding to the attribute of the image data by the processing unit in response to the change of setting of the attribute of the image area.