What's the difference between a picture and an image?
I think this is the missing question as these have already been asked:
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What's the difference between a picture and an image?
I think this is the missing question as these have already been asked:
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The OED defines them as (note these are only partial entries, as both words have several meanings. However these seemed to be the ones more appropriate for this discussion):
So I guess image refers more to the optical process, while picture is the actual painting/printed photograph etc.
Of course image is also used to refer to image files in informatics.