"break the image" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to disrupt or shatter a certain perception or impression that one has about something or someone. Example: The celebrity's scandalous behavior has caused the public to break the image they had of her as a role model for young girls.
Are you consciously looking to break the image?
But sometimes it's hard to break the image.
"We wanted to break the image of Gypsies in the street, begging where the cars stop, stealing whatever they can and living in total poverty," said Mr. Kashinsky, who lived with his wife, Ms. Gachet, in Buzescu for six weeks to document daily life in the thriving community.
Finally, the theoretical analysis and numerical experimental results show that the defect could be used to break the image cryptosystem based on logistic map.
In (101428) the author presents a new object categorization method that uses a biologically motivated codebook selection approach to break the image into its constituent objects and background.
Several 1D-EMD techniques exist that have less computing power demand; nevertheless, they break the image into independent lines, introducing image noise which, in turn, results in extended mixed mode in the IMFs.
The most common method uses the discrete cosine transform, a mathematical formula related to the Fourier transform, which breaks the image into separate parts of differing levels of importance for image quality.
Family-focused therapy, as it is called, breaks the image of the psychiatrist sitting in his chair, alone in a room with the patient, as well as the traditional wisdom that patient confidentiality is sacrosanct.
…the algorithm breaks the image up into tiny planes called "superpixels," which are within the image and have very uniform color, brightness and other attributes.
I've broken the image (which is quite massive on its own) into a few chunks below, and you can download the whole thing here.
He also committed an idolatrous act by breaking the image of Varaha – the boar Avatar of the god Vishnu, as it resembled a pig and symbolically hurt Islamic sensitivity.
