Collocations for image - noun

positive | negative | upmarket | downmarket | tarnished
The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image.

clean-cut, girl-next-door, wholesome
She was aiming for a wholesome, girl-next-door image.

macho | hackneyed
the hackneyed image of the poor student

media, public, screen
In real life she looks nothing like her screen image.

brand, corporate
Champagne houses owe their success to brand image.

create
The company needs to create a new image for itself.

present, project, promote
a book which presents positive images of older people

aim for, go for | change | clean up, enhance, improve, polish, revive
an effort to improve the organization's public image

keep up, live up to
The group has failed to live up to its macho image.

discard, shed
The industry is trying to shed its negative image.

tarnish

powerful, vivid | sudden
She had a sudden mental image of herself in a wedding dress.

positive | negative | distorted
the distorted images in his dreams

popular | stereotyped/stereotypical | mental | literary, poetic | dream

have | conjure up, summon up
Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads. | the ability to summon up images in the mind

build up
I like to build up images of the characters and setting before I start to write.

use | reinforce
Treating disabled people like children only reinforces negative images of disability.

~ from
images from his past

living, spitting
He's the spitting image of his father!

mirror
Charity was a mirror image of her twin. | (figurative) The return journey was almost a mirror image of the outward one (= the same things happened in the reverse order).

disturbing, poignant, powerful, striking
powerful and disturbing images of the war

visual
The visual image is steadily replacing the written word.

flickering, moving
flickering images on a screen

still
the use of still and moving video images

colour | black-and-white, monochrome | photographic, video | screen
Each illustration is displayed as a complete screen image.

digital | graven
(literary) It was forbidden to worship graven (= carved) images.

religious | pornographic

produce
the images produced on laser printers

capture, scan
She longed to capture the image on film.

edit | display, show
the pixel information used to display a digital image

store
You can store these images in a separate computer file.

juxtapose
The display juxtaposed images from serious and popular art.

show sth
heat images that show where most of the activity in the brain is

capture, processing | database