Picture
From the Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can change
A picture is a group of colored points on a flat surface that looks the same as something else. For example, a picture can look the same as an object or a person. Pictures can also be drawings, paintings or photographs. People who make such pictures are called artists, photographers or painters.
Almost all pictures are flat.
Another word for picture is image.
Contents |
[change] Image
An image is something that can be seen, but it is not physically there. It can be a photograph, a painting, or a picture on a television or computer screen. A lens can make an image of an object appear somewhere else. Cameras use this to make the image that becomes a photograph.
[change] Making Pictures
[change] Using Cameras for Pictures
Most pictures today are really 'photographs'. Photographs are made with cameras. A camera makes a picture that looks very real.
[change] Before Cameras
When there were no cameras, people had to make their own pictures by using paint, brushes, pencils, crayons, pens, and other things that people can write or draw with.
Pictures made with paint and brush are called 'paintings'. Before cameras, some artists were able to make very real looking pictures with just paint. Sometimes pictures made with pencil or pen are called 'sketches', if they are made very fast and only look a little bit like the real thing.
[change] Where are Pictures?
Usually pictures are put on paper. Pictures made with paint are usually put on a strong, rough fabric called 'canvas'. Sometimes pictures can be put on walls or other things, even glass.
In special or old places, such as churches, sometimes people can see pictures on windows made out of colored pieces of glass. These are called 'stained glass'.
[change] Special types of Pictures
[change] Moving Pictures
If people take a lot of pictures, and show them one at a time, very fast, they can make a picture look like the picture are moving. This is called a "moving picture", or a movie. A television shows people a picture by using light shined on a glass screen. A projector shines light from a light bulb through a kind of picture that the eyes can see through. When light shines through this kind of picture onto a wall or another flat place, the picture can be seen on that flat place.
[change] Three Dimensional Pictures
Some people can make pictures that do not look flat by taking two regular flat pictures at the same time. People have to move their eyes in a special way so that they can see both pictures together. When they look at the pictures the right way, the picture does not look flat. This is called '3D' or 'three dimensional'.
[change] Use of Pictures
Pictures and Diagrams can be used to explain how to use tools, and thus a picture is itself a kind of tool.
