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Image development is an umbrella term used to encompass the development of graphics (mainly but not exclusively computer graphics) for use in media. Since the computer has merged skills such as illustrating, photography, photo editing, 3-D modeling, and handicraft, creative professionals may find "image development" a more flexible umbrella term to avoid over-specifying or limiting options in the design process. The merging of the skills has led to multi-skilled image development artists. Photographers may become digital artists. Illustrators may become animators. Handicraft may be computer-aided or use computer generated imagery as a template. The expression umbrella term means a word that provides a superset or grouping of related concepts. ... Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world. ... An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. ... Cameron Frost is a good photographer! Photography is the process of making pictures by means of capturing light on a film. ... Photo manipulation is the technique of modifying a photographic image by either analog or digital means. ... A 3D rendering with raytracing and ambient occlusion using Blender and Yafray 3D computer graphics are works of graphic art that were created with the aid of digital computers and specialized 3D software. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Applied art. ... Although creative professionals--people who work full-time in creative endeavors--have been a part of the workforce for more than 500 years, several events during the past decade have altered industry and public perception of these workers. ... Design, usually considered in the context of the applied arts, engineering, architecture, and other such creative endeavours, is used as both a noun and a verb. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Digital artist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... An animator is one who is involved in the process of animation. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Applied art. ... Computer-aided- or Computer-assisted- is a prefix that hints to the use of a computer as an indispensable tool in a certain field, usually derived from more traditional fields of science and engineering. ... The seawater creature in The Abyss marked CGIs acceptance in the visual effects industry. ...

The term is also used to distinguish the process of preparing elements for use in media (e.g. photographs, illustrations, charts, collages) from the process of composing elements (e.g. page layout, web development, film editing, desktop publishing) to a single presentation piece (e.g. brochure, web page, movie, billboard, poster). Artists that know composition skills may also know image development skills. They may do the image development themselves or collaborate with other individually skilled image developers. Collaboration with image developers may be more useful with higher budget projects and projects that require rare or completely unique image development styles. It has been suggested that Archival digital print be merged into this article or section. ... Illustration by Jesse Wilcox Smith. ... plotting redirects here. ... Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ... Desktop publishing, or DTP, is the process of editing and layout of printed material intended for publication, such as books, magazines, brochures, and the like using a personal computer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Film editing, also called montage, is the connecting of one or more shots to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an entire movie. ... Apple Pages being used with one of the included templates Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer and page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local economical multifunction peripheral output and distribution. ... A brochure is a flyer or other paper material distributed for the purposes of advertising. ... A screenshot of a web page. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Poster from the Spanish Revolution A poster is any large piece of printed paper which hangs from a wall or other such surface. ... Composition is the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work. ...

Because the word "image" can have more than one shade of meaning, the term "image development" may be confused with the development process for the corporate image called branding or positioning. 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 in contrast to "image editing" which excludes the capturing of images, creation of images from scratch by sculpting or rendering, and creation of images by calculating fractal mathematical functions. The term "image development" may have emerged due to the lack of an alternative umbrella term with as broad of a scope. In common usage, an image (from Latin imago) or picture is an artifact that reproduces the likeness of some subjectâ€”usually a physical object or a person. ... A corporate image refers to how a corporation is perceived. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing A brand is a collection of images and ideas representing an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. ... In marketing, positioning is the technique by which marketers try to create an image or identity in the minds of their target market for its product, brand, or organization. ... An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion) for its clients. ... ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Rendering in visual art and technical drawing means the process of shading and texturing of an image, especially a realistic one. ... The boundary of the Mandelbrot set is a famous example of a fractal. ...

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