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The act of making an image with a mobile phone camera. The display of the mobile phone shows the
image being made.

A scanned image of the definition of image and imagery, from Thomas Blount's Glossographia
Anglicana Nova, 1707.

An SAR radar image acquired by the SIR-C/X-SAR radar on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour shows
the Teide volcano. The city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is visible as the purple and white area on the
lower right edge of the island. Lava flows at the summit crater appear in shades of green and brown,
while vegetation zones appear as areas of purple, green and yellow on the volcano's flanks

An image (from Latin: imago) is an artifact that depicts visual perception, such as a photograph or
other two-dimensional picture, that resembles a subject—usually a physical object—and thus
provides a depiction of it. In the context of signal processing, an image is a distributed amplitude of
color(s).[1] A pictorial script is a writing system that employs images as symbols for various semantic
entities, rather than the abstract signs used by alphabets.

Contents

1 Characteristics

1.1 Still or moving

2 Imagery (literary term)

3 See also

4 References
Characteristics

Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such

as a statue or hologram. They may be captured by optical devices – such as cameras, mirrors, lenses,
telescopes, microscopes, etc. and natural objects and phenomena, such as the human eye or water.

The word 'image' is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map, a
graph, a pie chart, a painting or a banner. In this wider sense, images can also be rendered manually,
such as by drawing, the art of painting, carving, rendered automatically by printing or computer
graphics technology, or developed by a combination of methods, especially in a pseudo-photograph.

A volatile image is one that exists only for a short period of time. This may be a reflection of an
object by a mirror, a projection of a camera obscura, or a scene displayed on a cathode ray tube. A
fixed image, also called a hard copy, is one that has been recorded on a material object, such as
paper or textile by photography or any other digital process.

A mental image exists in an individual's mind, as something one remembers or imagines. The subject
of an image need not be real; it may be an abstract concept, such as a graph, function, or imaginary
entity. For example, Sigmund Freud claimed to have dreamed purely in aural-images of dialogs.
[citation needed] Different scholars of psychoanalysis as well as the social sciences such as Slavoj
Žižek and Jan Berger have pointed out the possibility of manipulating mental images for ideological
purposes. Images perpetuated in public education, media as well as popular culture have a profound
impact on the formation of such mental images:

"What makes them so powerful is that they circumvent the faculties of the conscious mind but,
instead, directly target the subconscious and affective, thus evading direct inquiry through
contemplative reasoning. By doing so such axiomatic images tell us what we shall desire (liberalism,
in a snapshot: the crunchy honey-flavored cereals and the freshly-pressed orange juice in the back of
a suburban one-family home) and from what we shall obstain (communism, in a snapshot: lifeless
crowds of men and machinery marching towards certain perdition accompanied by the tunes of
Soviet Russian songs). What makes those images so powerful is that it is only of relative minor
relevance for the stabilization of such images whether they actually capture and correspond with the
multiple layers of reality, or not."[2] - David Leupold, sociologist

The development of synthetic acoustic technologies and the creation of sound art have led to a
consideration of the possibilities of a sound-image made up of irreducible phonic substance beyond
linguistic or musicological analysis.

There are Two Types of Images a. Still Image b. Moving Image

Still or moving

A still image is a single static image. This phrase is used in photography, visual media and the
computer industry to emphasize that one is not talking about movies, or in very precise or pedantic
technical writing such as a standard.