1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image; an information acquiring unit configured to acquire image information indicative of a content of the image; and a correcting unit configured to correct the image based on the image information such that some of warping of the image is left, wherein the correcting unit corrects the image such that a horizontal direction component of the warping is completely or nearly completely eliminated while a predetermined proportion of a vertical direction component of the warping is left when the image information indicates that the content of the image is a person.