To boost your content's visibility in Google Images, focus on the user by providing a great user experience: make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. You can also prevent the image from appearing in search results entirely. This behavior is not considered image cloaking and will not result in manual actions. This opt-out is possible at any time, and does not require re-processing of a website's images. Google will still crawl your page and see the image, but will display a thumbnail image generated at crawl time in search results.
If you choose, you can prevent the full-sized image from appearing in the Google Images search results page by opting out of inline linking in Google Images search results.