Color transfer plays an important role in image processing, which aims to change the original image color according to specific image color characteristics. In this paper, we present an interactive local color editing method based on multi-cue manipulation, including image segmentation, inpainting and gradient-preserving optimization. Firstly, The user draws strokes specifying the target region needed to transfer color, through which the source image can be segmented by K-means color clustering method. Then patch-based inpainting technology is applied to achieve natural transition along the boundary. After color transfer, we apply an optimization algorithm to preserve the gradient. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can not only achieve a visual satisfying local color transfer results, but also preserve the texture detail.