The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for performing photo processing in a gallery, belonging to the field of picture processing technology. The technical scheme opens up an application programming interface in the gallery so that the application developer can access the photo processing function module based on the application programming interface, receive the selection instruction of the target photo processing function module selected by the user from the photo processing function module and calls the target photo processing function module to process the photos selected by the user. Integrating the photo processing function modules available to users in the gallery, the user can process the photographed photos of the various effects, based on the library integrated processing functions.