Patent ID: 8064652

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a first determining unit configured to determine an area corresponding to a face of a person in an image stored in a memory; a second determining unit configured to determine a size of the whole of the image based on a size of the area determined in the image by the first determining unit; a generating unit configured to generate image data corresponding to the whole of the image according to the size determined by the second determining unit; and a print control unit configured to cause a printing apparatus to print the image onto a sheet based on the image data generated by the generating unit, wherein, in a case where there are an image whose area corresponding to a face of a person is large and an image whose area corresponding to a face of a person is small, the second determining unit determines the size of the whole of the image such that a size of the whole of the image of the small area becomes larger than that of the large area.