Patent ID: 6954282

Claim:
An image processing method, comprising the steps of: deciding layout information for an output image based on at least one frame being positioned at a user-desired position on an output image preview window according to a user designation; registering an editing set to an editing menu, wherein the editing set includes the decided layout information and a plurality of editing processes designated by the user; identifying an editing set selected from the editing menu; inputting a plurality of images by image inputting means; displaying the plurality of images input by the image inputting means in the form of reduced-size images; selecting at least one image from the plurality of displayed images; and outputting the output image generated by performing the plurality of editing processes, included in the editing set identified in said identifying step, on the at least one image selected in said selecting step and by arranging the selected image at the user-desired position based on the layout information, included in the editing set identified in said identifying step, wherein the editing processes and the layout information thereby correspond to the editing set identified in said identifying step, and wherein each frame indicates information of the user-desired position to arrange each selected image on the output image.