What is Picture?
[[File:Image created with a mobile phone.png|thumb|right|200px|[[photography|Photographing]] the environment with a mobile phone camera. The display of the mobile phone shows a live display of the image.]] A '''picture''', also called an '''image''', is a group of [[colour]]ed [[Dot|points]] on a flat [[surface]] that [[Sight|look]]s the same as something else. For example, a picture can look the same as an [[wikt:object|object]] or a [[person]]. Pictures can also be [[drawing]]<nowiki/>s, [[painting]]s or [[photograph]]s. People who make such pictures are called [[artist]]s, [[photographer]]s or [[painter]]s. Pictures are very helpful. Sometimes people say pictures are worth a thousand [[word]]s. Pictures and [[diagram]]s can be used to explain how to do things, and thus a picture is a kind of [[tool]]. A moment captured in an image. {{wiktionary}} 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 (optics)|lens]] can make an image of an [[object]] appear somewhere else. [[Camera]]s use this to make the image that becomes a [[photograph]]. ==Making Pictures== [[File:Drawing of a Painter.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Drawing of a painter showing his picture]] Most pictures today are '[[photograph]]s'. Photographs are made with [[camera]]s. A camera makes a picture that looks very [[real]]. When there were no [[camera]]s, people made pictures by using paint, [[brush]]es, [[pencil]]s, [[crayon]]s, [[pen]]s, and other things that people can [[writing|write]] or [[drawing|draw]] with. Pictures made with [[paint]] and brush are called 'paintings'. Before cameras, some [[artist]]s were able to make very real looking pictures with just paint. Sometimes pictures made with [[pencil]] or [[pen]] are called '[[sketch]]es', if they are made quickly and only look a little bit like the real thing. Usually pictures are put on [[paper]]. Pictures made with paint are usually put on a strong,