To enable transferring and receiving of data to be performed by installing a digital communication line between a laboratory side performing the developing and printing of films and a photographer side performing picture processings in order to obtain pictures intended by a photographer such as trimming, composition, easily.

Picture data are stored in a picture memory 10 by being related with prescribed indentification codes at a unit for laboratory 16 of a picture processing system. Moreover, when the unit 16 receives the identification codes from the unit for photographer 23 via a transmission line 26, the unit 16 transmits the picture data corresponding to the picture data stored in the memory 10 via the transmission line 26 to the unit 23. Then, the unit 23 displays pictures on a monitor 20 based on the picture data corresponding to the picture data transmitted from the unit 16.