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Evaluating Images

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1.

SIMPLICITY
* In order to ensure that our messages have simplicity, we should
ask ourselves two questions:
– is my purpose evident?
– Is my core message clear?

2. SPECIFICITY
*Refers to our choices of language and its usage on order to ensure
language is specific we may ask ourselves:
– Is my language specific?
– is my language concrete, rather than abstract?
– am i suing words which have additional meanings and could perhaps be misconstrued?

3. STRUCTURE
*Ideas should be organized and easy to follow.
– Does my messages have a STRUCTURE?
– is there a more effective way to arrange my ideas?

4. STICKINESS

“EVALUATING IMAGES”
* It is important to critically evaluate images you use for research, study and presentation images should
be evaluated like any other source, such as journal articles or books, to determine their quality, reliability
and appropriateness. Visual analysis is an important step in evaluating an image and understanding its
meaning and also. There are three steps of evaluating an image and these are:

1. Identifying Source
2. Interpret contextual information
3. Understand implications

“CONTENT ANALYSIS”

 What do you see?

 What is the image all about?

 Are their people in the image?

 What are they doing?

 How are they presented?

 Can the image be looked at different ways?

 How effective is the image as a visual message?

“VISUAL ANALYSIS”

 How is the image composed?


 Whats in the Background and what is in the foreground?

 What are the most important visual?

“IMAGE SOURCE”

 Where did you find the image?

 What information does the source provide about the origins of the image?

 Is the source reliable and trustworthy?

 Was the image found in an image database or was it being use in another context to convey
meaning?

“TECHNICAL QUALITY”

 Is the image large enough to suit your purposes?

 Are the color, light and balance, true?

 Is the image a quality digital image without pixilation or distortion?

 Is the image in a file format you can use ?

“CONTEXTUAL INFO”

 What information accompanies the image?

 Does the text change how you see the image? How?

 Is the textual information intended to be factual an inform or is


to intended to influence what and how you see?

 What kind of context does the information provide?

 Does it answer the questions where, how why and evaluation.

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