ADJ

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

VERB + 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

ADJ

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

VERB + IMAGE

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

PREP

~ from
images from his past

ADJ

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)

ADJ

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

VERB + IMAGE

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

IMAGE + VERB

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

IMAGE + NOUN

capture, processing
database