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I've seen phrases where it seems the subject switches between two different
meanings:

(1) これは春風をイメージしたメロディーです。 (This melody is meant to give an impression of the
wind in spring.)

(2) 先生のイメージする日本語が上手な人がその先生の日本語の教え方にすごく関係していく。 (The teachers' image of a
skillful Japanese speaker depends on their teaching style.)

It seems that the subject in (1) is メロディー, the object creating the impression.
On the other hand, the subject in (2) is 先生, the person who is getting the
impression. I expected that a verb would associate the subject with the same
type of an actor, but here it seems to take actors with quite different
"polarity". Did I misunderstand something?

What other 格助詞 are used with this verb besides が and を?
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Is the subject of イメージする the person getting the impression or the thing creating the impression?
The subject is always the person who 'imagines'. That is, the structure is
simply _Subj. が/は (Loc. に) Obj. をイメージする_.

After all, you can think (1) is (作者が)春風をイメージし(てつくっ)たメロディー. (I don't mean these
are omitted, but the cases can be made sense of as it is).

More practically, (1) is an instance of

  * [Meaning of ~を~に(して) / ~を~として / ~を~にする / ~を~とする / ~を~にした / ~を~とした](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/73082/45489)
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