The phrase 'referring to the picture' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that a statement you are making is related to a picture that you or your reader has seen, or that you anticipate your reader will see. For example, you might write: 'The two figures in the painting are wearing red outfits, referring to the picture on the facing page.'.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" said Mr. Robinson's brother, Eusebio Santana, referring to the picture.
"I had seen that image of Talitha and Paul on their rooftop in Marrakesh and thought it was just fantastic," Philo says, referring to the picture Patrick Lichfield snapped of the couple in 1969, in which Talitha -- in pantaloons and a silk brocade robe, with rings on every finger -- looks every bit the dreamy, drugged-out bohemian she was.
Other tags the system can automatically append include "outdoors" and "blackandwhite" – referring to the picture's setting and image type.
Referring to the picture above of a 1970 Dodge Charger driven by Dominic Toretto in the first movie, an advertisement for "Fast & Furious 6" asked the question, "'Fast & Furious' and 'Herbie: Fully Loaded' confirmed to take place in the same universe?" and answered, "We're gonna say yes".
The area where the filter paper was placed on the tongue surface for the measurement of moisture was manually specified as the area of interest referring to the picture of the filter paper on the tongue, and the degree of gloss of the area of interest was computed.
Try to do this without referring to the picture.
Referring to the pictures, Mr Saatchi said: "I was not gripping, strangling or throttling her.
You're referring to the pictures of me from last night's cancer benefit that I attended to support my dear friend Dr. Maggie DiNome.
This was followed by another story, which referred to "the Picture We Dare Not Print" – of Ronnie and Boothby – which still did not name the latter.
In fact, the WSJ refers to the picture at right as the Ocean Reader but it may be called something different when it is released later this year.
Writer Anjana Motihar Chandra has referred to the picture as the blockbuster of the 1990s, a "pot-pourri of romance, comedy, and entertainment".
