Image development can refer to:

• Corporate image development – a process known as branding or positioning
• Imaging science – creating and developing images, mainly using signal processing methods
• Graphic image development – creating and developing graphic images, using visual art skills
  • Illustrating – developing and rendering graphic images
  • Photography – capturing and developing photographic images
  • Image editing – editing graphic images, in contrast to capturing or creating graphic images from scratch
  • 3-D modeling – creating and developing 3D computer generated graphic images from wireframe modeling
  • Handicraft – fabricating graphic images by hand