Method of setting region to be subjected to red eye correction and red eye correcting method

A red eye correcting method in which a red eye in an image that has been produced in shooting is corrected into an eye having a pupil of a specified color, comprising the steps of:

• automatically extracting only the red eye from a first region including the red eye which has preliminarily been designated by an operator or automatically;
• setting a second region to be subjected to red eye correction for correcting a color of the pupil into said specified color of the pupil;
• and,
• if only the red eye can not automatically be extracted,
• setting said second region to be subjected to red eye correction by designating only the red eye by the operator manually;
• and
• converting said second region to be subjected to red eye correction thus set into the eye having the pupil of said specified color to correct the red eye,
• wherein said setting of said second region and said red eye correction are performed on first image data for displaying a first image on a monitor screen, a corrected first image reproduced from said first image data which has been subjected to said red eye correction is displayed on said monitor screen, and then said red eye correction in said corrected first image is verified, and wherein said setting of said second region and said red eye correction are performed on second image data for outputting a print.