Patent ID: 8031974

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device; a first storage section storing image data including an image obtained by the imaging device; a display section displaying the image data stored in the first storage section; an image-effect specification section specifying a type of image effect to be produced on the image data displayed in the display section; a scaling operation section specifying expansion and contraction of the image data displayed in the display section and specifying a range of an image edit area on the displayed image data; and an image processing section performing image processing on the image edit area specified by the scaling operation section in accordance with the specification from the image-effect specification section to modify the image data within the range of the image edit area based on the type of image effect and to maintain original image data outside the range of the image edit area to generate a modified image including both modified image data within the range and the original image outside the range, the display section displaying the modified image.