To solve a problem that the setting of operation cannot excellently be made because a user can hardly understand a difference between color processing for utilizing a general source profile and a general output profile and color processing utilizing a device link profile.

An image processing apparatus capable of utilizing a source profile used for color conversion via a Profile Connection Space being a color space independently of input and output devices as a color profile used for color conversion processing using a color profile and utilizing a device link profile used for directly carrying out color conversion from an input color space into an output color space not via a PCS, includes an operating means for exclusively selecting the device link profile and a set of the source profile and the output profile.