Disclosed is a process for the location dependent correction of photographic image data representing an image with a multitude of image elements, whereby the image data determine color values and at least one image property for the image elements, including the steps of: determining a correction mask with a multitude of correction elements based on the photographic image data to be corrected, whereby the correction elements are assigned to the image data and determine correction changes for the image data corresponding to the image element, the correction changes corresponding to changes of the at least one image property; and applying the correction mask to the image data, whereby the image data are changed corresponding to the correction elements.