To provide a method for evaluating a rough hand inexpensively, easily and accurately, and a device used therefor.SOLUTION: There is provided a method for evaluating a rough hand based on a hand image imaged in combination of a shading member, in a state of mounting a palm, wrist on a flat bed scanner, in which the rough hand is characterized by rush, pimple, phlyctenula, scale, agnail, fissure, rubor, redness, dryness, glossiness, scabrities, elimination of fingerprint, hardening and crack, or the like, such a feature is enhanced and displayed or such a feature is extracted in the method.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 14【課題】安価、簡便且つ精度よく、手荒れを評価する方法及びそれに用いる装置を提供する。【解決手段】フラットベッドスキャナに、手のひら、ての甲、手首を置き、更に遮光部材を併用して撮像された手画像に基づいて手荒れを評価する方法であって、手荒れとは、紅斑、丘疹、小水疱、鱗屑、ささくれ、あかぎれ、発赤、赤み、乾燥、光沢、粗ぞう化、指紋の消失、硬化及び亀裂などの特徴を、強調表示する工程又は手荒れの特徴を抽出する工程を含む、方法。【選択図】図１４
