Christmas is over, but that does not mean the fun has to end.  Consider letting me help preserve your Christmas moments with some beautiful photo treatments for your digital picture frame.  Let everyone in the family share the magic of the season with some matted photos that will help keep the spirit alive all year long.  Enjoy this week’s offerings as the new year approaches.  All the treatments pictured here are designed for 1024 x 768 resolution.  Other resolutions on request.

Digital Photo Matting

Capture the holidays with pictures and photo matting treatments.

Digital Calendars

Holiday photos and seasonal photos make great calendar pages.

Digital Awards

Another dazzling way to achieve recognition.

Inspirational and Humorous Plaques

Keep your favorite inspirations handy and motivate your day.

Digital Greeting Cards

Send your greetings via email and reach everyone you know.

Digital Promotional Products

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Do your photos a favor and use us to build great commemorations.

If you want me to create a unique design from your photos or specifications, just send an email to jdir@bhotechnologists.com and tell me what you have in mind.  Please do not attach photos to your email.  I will tell you everything you need to know about how to start getting the most from your digital picture frame content.  If you want to use any of the work posted on this site, just pay $3 per image at how to buy matting services and then send me an email to let me know what you use or want to download.

Thanks for visiting, and come back often.  If you like what you see, tell your friends.  If you don’t, then keep coming back until you find something you do like.  Your comments are welcome, especially if they are good ones.

The holidays produce a lot of good pictures for everyone to enjoy.  Why not check out our weekly photo contest and see if you have a photo that can win prizes?  To enter, check out our contest rules, and submit a favorite photo.   Check out our weekly photo contest rules for more information, and enter each week’s contest early for your chance to win.

Christmas is coming quickly, and I hope it is full of the true meaning of the holiday for everyone.  Just in case you are more loaded with the commercial thoughts that seem to come along at this time of year, I have some new ideas for you to consider buying from me.  If you wind up disappointed by your presents this year, here are some inexpensive items for you to consider giving yourself or others that are sure to be appreciated.  All the examples are geared for 1024 x 768 resolution, but I can work with other resolutions on request.  The reason I make items at this resolution is to satisfy my own uses, and to get the right level of pizzaz from the end products.  Enjoy this week’s samples.

Digital Matting Creations

Many different matting choices are possible using a variety of techniques. What suits your taste?

Digital Calendars

From conventional to loud, we can put together a calendar design that is unique.

Digital Awards

We can make all kinds of cool awards for business or just for fun.

Inspirational and Humorous Plaques

Virtual plaques make interesting and fun gifts.

Digital Greeting Cards

A nice gesture or a reminder, digital greeting cards are great.

Digital Promotional Products

Clever business promotional products can help promote a business. (All samples for display purposes only, and not intended to promote business shown.)

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Commemorate your photo memories for others to appreciate.

If you want me to create a unique design from your photos or specifications, just send an email to jdir@bhotechnologists.com and tell me what you have in mind.  Please do not attach photos to your email.  I will tell you everything you need to know about how to start getting the most from your digital picture frame content.  If you want to use any of the work posted on this site, just pay $3 per image at how to buy matting services and then send me an email to let me know what you use or want to download.

Thanks for visiting, and come back often.  If you like what you see, tell your friends.  If you don’t, then keep coming back until you find something you do like.  Your comments are welcome, especially if they are good ones.

Festive photo matting looks good on a digital picture frame or computer screen.

 Digital Calendars

Custom calendars made from digitally matted photos make nice digital displays.

 Digital Awards

Use your pictures to create inexpensive and fun awards.

 Inspirational Plaques

Photos look great on inspirational plaque designs.

 Digital Greeting Cards

Send family and friends custom greeting cards for all occasions.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Commemorative photo treatments give your photos the notice they deserve.

Business Promotional Products

Use our products to promote your business!

If you want me to create a unique design from your photos or specifications, just send an email to jdir@bhotechnologists.com and tell me what you have in mind.  Please do not attach photos to your email.  I will tell you everything you need to know about how to start getting the most from your digital picture frame content.  If you want to use any of the work posted on this site, just pay $3 per image at how to buy matting services and then send me an email to let me know what you use or want to download.

Thanks for visiting, and come back often.  If you like what you see, tell your friends.  If you don’t, then keep coming back until you find something you do like.  Your comments are welcome, especially if they are good ones.

Inspirational plaques from photos.

Hypnotic Inspiration

Imagination makes a difference.

Looking ahead.

Autumn inspiration.

If you want me to create a unique design from your photos or specifications, just send an email to jdir@bhotechnologists.com and tell me what you have in mind.  Please do not attach photos to your email.  I will tell you everything you need to know about how to start getting the most from your digital picture frame content.  If you want to use any of the work posted on this site, just pay $3 per image at how to buy matting services and then send me an email to let me know what you use or want to download.

Thanks for visiting, and come back often.  If you like what you see, tell your friends.  If you don’t, then keep coming back until you find something you do like.  Your comments are welcome, especially if they are good ones.

From now to the end of the year, you can put your photos to work for you in our weekly photo contest    We will have an “open photo” theme,  accepting your favorite photos as entries.   Send me your entries and get some free stuff from me if you win.  Do you think your photo is a winner?  Check out our weekly photo contest rules for more information, and enter each week’s contest early for your chance to win.

Make a choice and be a winner.

This week brings another round of dazzling digital award design ideas that bring unexpected glories to a deserving audience.  My first award brings prestige to my endeavors, straight from the Famous Academy of Bloggers and Technicians in honor of imagination found right here at Matte Watch.  The composition brings a rich highlight to the selected photo of a fine sculpture which provides the central theme for this award.  With any luck, the site will be honored with more of these accolades.  If your site deserves a similar honor, you are welcome to comment on why you should be in line to receive your own award.  So far, the Academy has only issued two awards, which is one more reason why Matte Watch belongs to an elite group.

Imagination is a wonderful thing...especially when it is recognized.

The next award suggests a concept that is rarely found among neighbors across the country today.  Made from the fall photo of a quiet Leawood Kansas location, the award suggests something that can be shared to bring any neighborhood closer together and express pride in the community.  Since the award is a digital composition, everyone on the block could easily share in the recognition on a regular basis.

Could this be your neighborhood? Yes.

My third award for this month could be used to honor those individuals who are able to look to the future for better days and dreams ahead, and who actively pursue bringing advancements to life.  The photo composition is used to represent that visionary focus into infinity, taken on the landscape of the Nelson Art Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.  Who do you know that is deserving of this fine form of recognition?

The world of tomorrow, are you ready?

The final award installment is aimed toward the unsung heroes that bring us all a sense of tranquility through the art of a well planned landscape.  The matted photo shows just how much beauty can be added with a splash of color from fall blooms, and well planned fall colors.  I would like having lunch on this patio, surrounded by so much beauty, I might forget about wanting to go back inside to work on a warm afternoon.

Have you noticed your landscape today?

Now it is time for the shameless commercial.  If you want me to create a unique design from your photos or specifications, just send an email to jdir@bhotechnologists.com and tell me what you have in mind.  Please do not attach photos to your email.  I will tell you everything you need to know about how to start getting the most from your digital picture frame content.  If you want to use any of the work posted on this site, just pay $3 per image at how to buy matting services and then send me an email to let me know what you use or want to download.

Thanks for visiting, and come back often.  If you like what you see, tell your friends.  If you don’t, then keep coming back until you find something you do like.  Your comments are welcome, especially if they are good ones.

People take pictures to preserve the memories of important occasions, precious moments, events, places, family, friends, and a host of other reasons.  Some images are lost in obscurity over time, some are classic, and others become lasting impressions of times gone by.  No matter how good or bad a picture turns out to be, it is kept for reasons often forgotten.  When your photo is important enough to become a keepsake, it is also important enough to commemorate.  Depending on the subject of the pictures, the emotion, memory, and details about the shots can range from elaborate and deep, to simple identifiers to preserve reminders of when and where they were taken.  For my own part, if there is not enough meaning to remember a photo, there is not enough reason to keep it.  For the photos that mean the most, I have a number of ways to help you commemorate and showcase the personal thoughts associated with them, in a fashion that gives them the valued treatments they deserve.

The first example shows one technique for providing a photo commemorative.  With a rich combination of matting techniques and prose, the photo is elevated to a level that tells the viewer that this is an important image.  Do you want to take all your photos to this level?  I think not, but everyone has a few special memories that deserve to be preserved at this level of attention.

Photo, prose, matting tell the complete story of your images.

The next commemorative example is a step down from the first.  Certainly, the matting treatment gives the picture a boost over plain display, but the added description which identifies the date, location, and subject of the shot help to enhance and identify the purpose behind it.

Showcase even simple compositions with meaningful commemorations

The third commemoration provides a matted photo with a simple label to remind the owner when and where the photo was taken, notated directly on the digital matting.  This is a nice alternative to scratching out a hand written note on the back of a nice print.

Labels on matted photos provide succinct history

In the final example, the photo itself is altered to reflect a thought or mood for the scene, coupled with another matte label.  All these treatments work well for a digital picture frame display, or as a computer screen wallpaper. 

Special effects, matting and labels convey mood, impression and intent for special photos

Share your memories with friends and family by commemorating the occasions you want to remember.  What can I do to help you give your pictures the kind of appreciation they deserve?

If you want me to create a unique design from your photos or specifications, just send an email to jdir@bhotechnologists.com and tell me what you have in mind.  Please do not attach photos to your email.  I will tell you everything you need to know about how to start getting the most from your digital picture frame content.  If you want to use any of the work posted on this site, just pay $3 per image at how to buy matting services and then send me an email to let me know what you use or want to download.

Thanks for visiting, and come back often.  If you like what you see, tell your friends.  If you don’t, then keep coming back until you find something you do like.  Your comments are welcome, especially if they are good ones.

Put your photos to work for you in our weekly photo contest    The theme this week is “holiday greetings”.  Send me your best holiday greeting photo and get some free stuff from me if you win.  Do you think your photo is a winner?  Check out our weekly photo contest rules for more information, and enter this week’s contest early for your chance to win.

Make a choice and be a winner.