An iris color correction apparatus has a skin color identification section which identifies the skin color of a photographed person in an inputted image, a skin correction color calculation section which obtains a skin correction color that is an iris color of said person that should be shown in said image based on the skin color identified by said skin color identification section, an original iris color calculation section which obtains an original iris color that is a representative color of a peripheral region of the iris of said photographed person from the color of pixels included in the peripheral region, a correction reference color setting section which acquires said obtained skin correction color and original iris color, and sets one of the skin correction color and the original iris color to be a correction reference color when correction is carried out, and a correction section which corrects the iris color of said photographed person based on said correction reference color.

 
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