Patent ID: 8259208

Claim:
A method of selectively applying editing adjustments to elements contained within stored image material previously captured by a camera having touch screen input, comprising: performing registration of user touch screen input at a location on a display screen at which a specific element in the captured image material is displayed as an image of an object; determining boundaries, automatically, for multiple elements as images of objects of arbitrary shape contained within the captured image; selecting a specific element as the image of an object within the captured image in response to registration of user touch screen input and the automatically determined boundaries, wherein the specific element as the image of an object is of arbitrary shape; performing automatic selecting of an image editing adjustment, or proposing of an adjustment, to said specific element as the image of an object in response to characterizing image aspects therein; and processing the image using image processing of said specific element as the image of an object to apply adjustments to the stored image content of said element in relation to the remainder of the captured image to apply a modification of the image content of the image of said object.