Images can serve several purposes: to inform, distinguish and recognize, communicate and sell, learn and know, entertain and have fun, and enjoy and express beauty. Images are a form of visual communication that includes signs, typography, drawings, graphic design, illustrations, and color. For communication to occur through images, there must be a sender who encodes a message into visual signals, a channel to transmit the signals, and a receiver who decodes the message from the signals.

1. WHAT ARE IMAGES FOR?
RAQUEL P. FARIÑAS

3. Oral
with words
Musical
with sounds
COMMUNICATION
Gestural
with gestures
Visual
with images

4. • informing,
• distinguishing and recognizing,
• communicating and selling,
• learning and knowing,
• entertaining and having fun,
• enjoying and expressing its beauty

5. • An information source which produces a
message.
•A sender who encodes the message into
signals
•A channel to which signals are adapted
for transmission
•A receiver who 'decodes' (reconstructs)
the message from the signal.

6. It is communication through visual aid.
It includes:
• signs,
• typography,
• drawing,
• graphic design,
• illustration,
• colour,
• electronic resources.

7. 1. To inform: signs, maps,etc.

8. 2. To distinguish and recognize:
coat of arms, flags, club of
football logos , insignia,
logotypes.

9. 3. To communicate and sell:
advertising/publicity.

10. 4.- To learn and know: drawings,
engravings, paintings , pictures…
(remember the context, these images
can be considered Art)

11. 5.- To entertain and have fun:
comic, movies, videogames, etc.

12. 6.- To express and enjoy its beauty:
artistic images, art work, etc.