Talk:Picture Levels/@comment-1.124.48.136-20150801082552/@comment-24668482-20150801083702

when an anomaly is in a picture, you have two choices of what to do with it. You can play the picture with the anomaly in it (the next mode will be curse mode) or you can choose to remove the anomaly from the picture without playing it by using a banishing item to banish it (the mode will change from the anomaly to text mode).

Playing picture with the Anomaly will cost you more energy but will give you extra experience points and coins, and is the only way to get curse mode to appear in a picture. Banishing the anomaly does not cost you energy but you do need to have the right banishing item. Banishing will give you rewards (combining elements, collection items) the same as if you had played the picture, without having to play it. What banishing items you need to banish each anomaly (and how to get them in the game) is listed in the anomaly article here.