An adaptive color image filter (ACIF) is proposed in this note. Through analyzing noise corruption of color image, efficient locally adaptive filters are chosen for image enhancement. The proposed adaptive color image filter combines advantages of both nonlinear vector filters and linear filters, it attenuates noise and preserves edges and details very well. Experimental results show that the proposed filter performs better than vector median filter, directional-distance filter, directional-magnitude vector filter, adaptive nearest-neighbor filter, and α-trimmed mean filter. Through adaptive noise corruption of color image, efficient locally adaptive filters are chosen for image enhancement. The proposed adaptive color image filter bundles advantages of both nonlinear vector filters and linear filters, it attenuates noise and preserves edges and details very well. Experimental results show that the proposed filter performs better than vector median filter, directional-distance filter, directional-magnitude vector filter, adaptive nearest-neighbor filter, and α-trimmed mean filter.