Patent ID: 8768195

Claim:
An image processing apparatus capable of performing a plurality of toner-saving processes each reducing an amount of toner consumed to form an image, the image processing apparatus comprising: a selecting unit that allows a user to select one toner saving process from the plurality of toner saving processes; a toner saving unit that performs the one toner saving process selected through the selecting unit; and a display unit that provides, when the one toner saving process is a predetermined toner saving process that yields a printed output whose print quality is not easily presumed by the user, a preview display representing the print quality of the printed output to be yielded by the one toner saving process, wherein the toner saving unit performs, as the toner saving process that yields a printed output whose print quality is not easily presumed by the user, a process of changing hue of an input image, and the toner saving unit performs the process of changing the hue by changing the hue depending on hue of an object in the input image.