Method for enhancing an image and enhanced printed image with three-dimensional features
AssigneeArtobotics, LLC
InventorsHank B. Ridless, Pindar Van Arman
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Abstract
A method for enhancing an image. A sheet having an image formed thereon, and a digital file of the image, are provided. Three-dimensional artistic embellishments having features are applied to an area of the image on the sheet. The image in the digital file is modified in the area to resemble at least some of the features of the artistic embellishments applied to the image on the sheet. The modifications may be the addition of color to the area. A print of the modified image with three-dimensional artistic embellishments is provided.
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A method for enhancing an image, comprising providing a sheet having an image formed thereon, providing a digital file of the image, applying three-dimensional artistic embellishments having attributes to an area of the image on the sheet and modifying the image in the digital file in the area to resemble at least some of the attributes of the artistic embellishments applied to the image on the sheet.
A vacuuming forming method for creating an embellished reproduction of an image, comprising providing a mold with a plurality of three-dimensional features on a surface of the mold, modifying a digital file of the image in a computer to create a modified image with a plurality of areas of additional color, printing the modified image on to a thermoformable substrate to create a printed substrate, positioning the mold on a vacuum table, positioning the printed substrate over the mold, registering the plurality of areas of additional color in the modified image on the printed substrate with the plurality of three-dimensional features on the surface of the mold, heating the printed substrate and providing sufficient vacuum to the vacuum table to press the printed substrate on to the mold to form an embellished reproduction of the modified image from the printed substrate and removing the embellished reproduction from the mold.
A method for creating an embellished reproduction of an image, comprising modifying a digital file of the image in a computer to create a modified image with a plurality of areas of additional color, printing the modified image on a substrate to create a printed substrate and forming three-dimensional features in the printed substrate in each of the plurality of areas of additional color.
A modified print of an original image, comprising a print of the original image on a substrate sheet, three-dimensional features formed in the substrate sheet in a plurality of areas of the image and additional color added to the print of the original image in at least some of the plurality of areas of the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.