IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

An image processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires a first image, a second image, and an identifier indicating whether or not a portion corresponding to the first image and included in a third image is to be subjected to a second process; a first processing unit that (i) performs a first process on the first and second images acquired by the acquisition unit to generate the third image and (ii) performs conversion on a α blend value of each pixel forming the generated third image for allocating the identifier to a portion of a possible range of the α blend value; and a second processing unit that controls whether to perform the second process on each pixel forming the third image generated by the first processing unit, on the basis of the converted α blend value.