1. A method of identifying a distracting element in an image, said method comprising: determining a visual attention map for the image, said visual attention map representing one or more regions of the image, at least one of said regions corresponding to at least a portion of a subject of the image; determining a salient region map for the image, said salient region map comprising a distribution of visual attraction values defining one or more further regions of the image, said one or more further regions being categorised as salient; and identifying a distracting element in said image based on the visual attention map and the salient region map, wherein said distracting element corresponds to at least one of the salient regions.