image this article is about visual artifacts or reproductions for other uses see image disambiguation picture redirects here for other uses see picture disambiguation for wikipedia image use guidelines see wikipediaimages 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 blounts glossographia anglicana nova 1707 an sar radar image acquired by the sircxsar 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 volcanos flanks an image from latin imago is an artifact that depicts visual perception for example a photo or a twodimensional picture that has a similar appearance to some subjectusually a physical object or a person thus providing a depiction of it in context of image signal processing an image is a distributed amplitude of colors characteristics images may be twodimensional such as a photograph or screen display or threedimensional 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 twodimensional figure such as a map a graph a pie chart or a painting 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 pseudophotograph 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 individuals 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 auralimages of dialogs the development of synthetic acoustic technologies and the creation of sound art have led to a consideration of the possibilities of a soundimage 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 a moving image is typically a movie film or video including digital video it could also be an animated display such as a zoetrope a still frame is a still image derived from one frame of a moving one in contrast a film still is a photograph taken on the set of a movie or television program during production used for promotional purposes imagery literary term imagery in literature imagery is a mental picture which appeals to the senses aniconism avatar computing cinematography computer animation computergenerated imagery digital image digital imaging fine art photography graphics image editing pattern recognition photograph media related to images at wikimedia commons quotations related to image at wikiquote the dictionary definition of image at wiktionary the bz reaction the moving or the still image library of congress format descriptions for still images image processing online open research group legal issues regarding images image copyright case 