Patent ID: 8363270

Claim:
An image processing method for displaying a simulation image of an image formed on a print medium under a first light-source color on a display device under a second light-source color, comprising: an acquisition step of acquiring image data to be simulated in a format according to the second light-source color; a reflective color calculation step of calculating a reflective color obtained by processing the acquired image data so that the processed image data represents an image corresponding to the acquired image data illuminated by an achromatic light-source color; a glossy color calculation step of converting the first light-source color into the format according to the second light-source color, and calculating a glossy color of the image data based on the converted first light-source color; and a generation step of generating the simulation image to be displayed by adding the reflective color calculated in the reflective color calculation step and the glossy color calculated in the glossy color calculation step.