Image development (visual arts)
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Image development is the process of developing images for any use. It is often both a synonym for a specific process and a label for a unique combination of processes.
Term Scope
Image development is essentially visual art usually for commercial purposes, but can include techniques not considered fine art or artistic. Image development for the purposes of technical illustration, cartography, and surveillance photography are not considered artistic when aesthetics are irrelevant. Some image development involves signal processing techniques such as screen capture or image scanning, which is considered imaging. Developing images by calculating fractal mathematical functions are not considered artistic despite its usage for aesthetic purposes.
Term usage
For example, photographers sometimes become digital artists. Illustrators sometimes become animators. Handicraft can be computer-aided or use computer generated imagery as a template. Some skills overlap multiple forms of image development.
Artists who have composition skills may also have image development skills. They may do the image development themselves or collaborate with other individually skilled image developers. Collaboration with individual illustrators, photographers and designers is often useful with projects that require unique and individual image styles.
Ironically, both uses of the term may apply in the same profession such as the advertising agency using graphic image development in the process of developing the corporate image of a client. The term is also used in contrast to "image editing" which excludes the capturing of images and creation of images from scratch by sculpting or rendering.
See also
Recommended reading
- Jan Roberts-Breslin , Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production, March 13, 2003
- Garth Gardner, Computer Graphics and Animation: History, Careers, Expert Advice, July 2002
External links
- GraphicMentor tutorials for graphic image development.