Means for displaying photographs

Details Means for displaying photographs Means for displaying photographs

1997-01-27

1998-08-25

Johnson, Blair

Card, picture, or sign exhibiting

Picture frame

Mat, mount, or backing

40773, A47G 106

Patent

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057972052

ABSTRACT:
A mask is adapted for superimposing on a photograph to accentuate a portion of the photograph. The mask is made of a thin sheet of plastic, by means of, e.g., colored raster which is opaque in a peripheral region surrounding a transparent, central area without raster. The peripheral region and the central area are separated by a relatively narrow, transitional zone with increasing distance between the raster, so that the transitional zone gradually fades out into the transparent, central area. The mask may be employed in the same simple manner as a passe-partout frame for accentuating one particular portion of a photograph, and with the same good visual effect achieved by a traditional phototechnical method for integrally providing a photograph with a neutral peripheral region gradually fading out via a soft transitional zone into the desired portion of the photograph.

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