Selective colour correction applied to plurality of local color gamuts

A method is described for selective colour correction of an original colour image. In one embodiment, a colour is selected by picking a coloured pixel from the colour image and a changed colour, having a restricted colour change, is associated with the selected colour. All original colours, situated within a local colour gamut, comprising the selected colour, undergo a colour modification according to the colour change. The effect of the modification decreases as the original colour reaches the boundary of the local colour gamut. The selected colour and changed colour may be defined in the native colour space, the local colour gamut is preferentially defined by an action radius related to a psychometric colour space. Two or more selective colour corrections may be combined by a weighted mean modification, by choosing for each colour change a weight value, which decreases as the selected colour is more different from the original colour.