The role of amplitude and phase of the Fourier transform in the digital image processing

The analysis of the importance of the amplitude and the phase of Fourier transform has been carried out by means of combining these functions between two images and observing the reconstructed image after a second transform. This processing has been studied by taking into account several possibilities, especially for very structurally different images. It is proved that the phase carries the most relevant information, but when common images are combined with images constituted by strongly marked geometric forms it is not so evident and the amplitude could play a more important role.