Patent ID: 7684063

Claim:
An image processing method carried out in a printer driver for causing a printer to print image data according to an image displayed on a monitor, comprising the steps of: performing, on a user interface of the printer driver, a setting for a human face recognition process and a landscape identification process for the image data, the human face recognition process recognizing both an eye and a human tint; and executing, based on a recognition result according to the performed setting, a first adjustment to image data corresponding to a landscape image if the image comprises the landscape image and a second adjustment, different from the first adjustment, to image data corresponding to a human face image if the image comprises the human face image, wherein the first adjustment and the second adjustment are executed in the executing step to adjust a saturation component, and by adjusting the saturation component, a portion of the image data is converted into data outside a color gamut of the monitor and within a range capable of being reproduced by the printer.