There is provided an image processing apparatus, comprising: a tomographic image acquiring unit for acquiring a tomographic image of a retina an instruction unit for instructing for a change in the positions of display forms indicating a plurality of regions in one of the display forms indicating a plurality of layer boundaries of a retina and a display control unit for causing the display unit to display respective display forms indicating the plurality of layer boundaries in positions corresponding to the plurality of layer boundaries in the tomographic image in an overlapped state, and in a case of instructing for the change in the position of at least one of display forms, for causing the display unit to display the display form instructed with the display form different from other display forms.