Patent ID: 8007618

Claim:
A method of forming an image displaying medium with a metallic image comprising steps of: providing a transfer receiving material having a color image thereon, providing a thermal transfer sheet in which at least a resinous peelable layer and a metal thin layer are provided on one surface of a substrate film in this order, wherein the resinous peelable layer comprises a pigment and a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 60° C. or higher, and the metal thin layer comprises a composition containing an aluminum pigment having a deposited thickness of 0.01 to 0.1 μm, an average particle short diameter of 0.01 to 0.2 μm and an average long diameter of 1 to 100 μm, prepared by forming an aluminum film by deposition on a carrier sheet with a releasing layer provided thereon and peeling the aluminum film from the carrier sheet to finely divide it, and a binder of a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 50 to 150° C., forming a metallic image by thermally transferring the thermal transfer sheet onto the color image of the transfer receiving material.