Disclosed herein is an image forming process for forming an image-recorded
article having a coating layer on at least a part of an image formed,
which comprises the steps of providing a liquid composition containing a
polymer, providing an image-recorded article formed on a recording medium
by an ink-jet recording method, and applying the liquid composition to at
least a part of an image of the recorded article to insolubilize the
polymer contained in the liquid composition on the surface of the image,
thereby forming the coating layer at a position to which the liquid
composition has been applied, wherein the recording medium has a surface
which insolubilizes the polymer.