Our award style favorite for this week shows what might be used in presenting a form of service award.  The blending of textures and colors from the wood, marble and metal foundations add a rich touch to the composition, and the badge makes a good highlight for the design.  The lighted background gives the picture more depth and realism.  The signature was a scanned copy of actual handwriting imposed on the object for another authentic touch.  Try getting something made this richly designed elsewhere for just $3.

Rich looking service award template makes good design.

This week’s photo calendar sample provides a departure from previous styles.  In this construct, the calendar takes a matted vertical shot to create a different flavor of side by side design, while the blue/gray shaded background compliments and highlights the embedded picture.  In this design suggestion, the calendar is being used in a screen wallpaper/note context that might serve as a greeting being emailed from a friend, to provide some correspondence updates and serve as a reminder of a scheduled rendezvous. 

You can use calendars in your correspondence.

Our matted photo/screen wallpaper for the week uses a simple snow scene photo, adds color from the photo, earth tones from a marble inlay, and a ight shaded outer matte and innermost matte within the frame to mimic the same lighting angle as reflected in the photo, and lend realism to the scene.  Using the simple black frame and pastel wall color which was also taken from the photo, this picture’s elements come together in a unique end result.

Angled shading effects also enhance composition.

You may use our compositions by donating $3 per image for each item you take from the site.  Article content may also be used without graphics if you do not alter the content, and acknowledge our site and author, John K, as the source.  If you want us to work with you to bring your own ideas to life, send us an email and let us know how we can help.  Visit often, there is much more to come.

When you are thinking about what to get your mother for Mothers Day, you can accomplish something unique and thoughtful without looking all over the planet to get the job done.  If you can think of a nice thought using your own words and photographs, this can be one of the best ways possible to celebrate the moment.

If you need a little help putting some polish on your creation, let us put together a nice digital composition for you that will tell your story and last longer than the last card you bought.  Here are three more unique creations that we have put together ourselves.  If you want us to personalize an item with your mother’s name or your digital signature, we can do it.  Just send us an email with what you want.  At $3 per item we cannot afford to return non-local calls, so your email requests are appreciated.  If you want to use an item you see on our site, just download the picture and donate $3 for using it.  If you like what we post, let us know what you can use, and what you are looking for.

Keep your eyes open for more original creations to come, and tell your friends about us.  Thank you for your interest.

Simple sentiments can be personalized with digital plaques.

Make you digital photographs come alive with digital matting creations.

We can help make your thoughts even more special with digital designs.

It seems like every year, we search to find a nice way to express our sentiments on Mothers day.  This year, you can reach out to Mom with a nice decorative digital design in the form of an “award” or plaque to acknowledge your mother.

Here are a few possible examples of how you can tell your mother how you feel.  The first image is done as an award style, with nice flowers and rich accents.  You could personalize your gift by adding your mother’s name to the piece.

Mothers Day can be a great time to award mothers for their hard work.

A second style offers a decorative plaque design with sentiment and photo to reflect the Mothers Day theme.

A nice sentiment can lift your mother's spirits.

A third style of digital plaque provides another quote to express sentiment, and a bright flower photo with a matted background that compliments the flowers in the picture.

Many interesting designs and sentiments are possible with digital matting.

This week’s favorite matted photo award takes a stab at finding humor in adjusting to the “world economy.”  Here the matted photo is simple colors that draw attention to the punch line, and make the award looked like it is hanging on the wall with etched lettering.  Though the form of this award is similar to a previous favorite, the content is quite different.

A matted photo adds spark to digitally created awards.

Next, the matted photo calendar has a light metal sheet matte with simple matted photos reflecting the theme, “Livin’ Under The Rainbow” printed in small lettering on the matted windows of the piece.  The metallic sheet of the background matting adds interest and richness to the calendar style, and is one of the types of backgrounds that is popular with many who have provided feedback on styles.  The matting of the photos adds continuity and depth to the pictures chosen for the display. When a digital calendar is not needed for keeping track of monthly events, this side by side style is a good esthetic choice.

Combinations of matting techniques enrich the end results.

The final offering for this week is a “statement” piece.  The inner matting reflects colors drawn from the primary focal points of the photo, with the outer textured matting reflecting colors from the background.  A subdued label on the outer matte shows what the photographer had in mind as the picture was composed.  Digital matting techniques offer many different ways to express mood and intent through color, a wide variety of labeling fonts, and other methods which present the work in the way it is meant to be shown. 

Text can help viewers understand the point of a composition.

If you would like us to help you create your own statement, send us an email and let us help you build your work of art.  Thanks for visiting, and if you like what you see, bookmark our site.

This week’s matting display is a screen wallpaper built from a serene Spring walk along the outer edge of an Overland Park, Kansas golf course.  The selection uses very subtle inner matting texture with a graduated outer matte look that allows the color of the sky in the photo to spread beyond the confines of the picture.  We have another version of this photo in the Fall as well from a different color and lighting perspective.

Early Spring walk with a nice view.

The award we had the most fun with this week is this humorous take on an unusual photo featuring the late Fred Rogers and KoKo the gorilla in a happy embrace.  We chose this composition for its unexpected impact and light hearted humor.  Creating awards that include celebrity help to broaden the appeal of the messages, and create familiarity.

Celebrity based humor grabs attention.

Our calendar sample for the week builds on a dual set of photographs from the same area, and adds a marble textured background that compliments the colors of the photographs.  Though we generally create our calendars according to the photos that will be displayed on the pages, we can also provide a twelve month theme from a singular background, if someone likes a particular composition more than others.  The pictured composition is a side by side design that works well in digital photo frames and as wallpapers, but we can also provide the traditional calendar page orientation as well.  If a customer wants us to create a series with their own logo and events for resale, we can do this as well for the same $3 per page set up. 

One of many beautiful virtual textures available with digital designs.

If we can do something for you, send us an email describing what you have in mind.  Whether we are matting your photos, making calendar pages, or creating awards, our composition prices are the best you will find anywhere.  These items make great gifts for friends and family, and in these hard times, everyone can use a good laugh.  If you want to use something you find on our site, we ask you to donate $3 per image.  Send us a note about what kind of items you like the most, and we can keep more ideas coming.

In observance of the upcoming Easter holiday weekend, we invite all our friends and family in Christ to share this offering for the season.  May you be blessed and loved wherever you are.

With digital matting and photos, the designs that arise from this approach can produce some unique and interesting results.  Take a look at this image used as a Valentines Day greeting.

Digital designs can create some nice seasonal greetings with a personal touch.

The format of this offering can be used as a screen wallpaper, displayed in a digital picture frame, or even printed.  This “greeting card” can also be delivered via email.  With this particular idea, the sender set up the picture as a wallpaper on his wife’s computer, so it would be there when she booted up her system.  As couples look to keep their romance kindled, this form of little “note” gets the point across quite nicely.  For other seasonal occasions or “just because” we can design digital greetings that you can print or send to friends and family.  If you have other family members with digital picture frames, you can send each other nice keepsake holiday wishes using the creativity of digital matting techniques.

In designing the piece, the sender used photos of himself and a Valentine’s Day wreath, his wife had made, as the focus of the message.  We took that theme and surrounded it with a rose colored background, burl wood, and onyx frame, with a golden sheet metal front to capture the sentiment of the words.  From the feedback, the personalized idea went over better than a box of candy.

If you have some ideas for seasonal greetings or personalized messages you want to create from your digital photos and images, send us an email, and find out how we can help.  At only $3 per designed image, we cannot afford to return long distance calls, so stick with emails please.  If you like our designs, please donate $3 for each image you use to help us continue offering fresh ideas.  Come often and tell your friends about us.

In the following design, we have brought a number of unusual elements together in creating an advertisement that appeals on a number of different levels.

Get your advertisement noticed using digital designs.

Using this thematic concept, it is possible to combine the attraction of a high quality digital plaque format with a clever punch line that will get attention.  The display uses a hard hitting approach that captures casual viewers on a variety of different personal levels.  The dollar bill draws the eye of money minded people, the rich plaque provides the centering and draw of a nicely crafted award, and the gold matted photo of the restaurant suggests a fine dining experience.  When all these elements are combined with the simply worded slogan, viewers get the point with minimum exposure to the intent.

When this form of advertisement is used in a digital picture frame, a variety of interesting shots are possible, each delivering their own miniature “billboard” effect.  Variations on this type of layout could be used to create eye catching coupons for discounted goods and services, creating another subliminal level of customer rewards for utilizing merchant services.  It might even be possible to use digitized media to create a means for selling merchant partner advertisements in a small space.

Presenting advertising in the plaque format helps to take advantage of what people have already been conditioned to accepting as part of their personal enrichment experience.  Whenever anyone creates a new form of media presentation, it is not long before others begin exploring how that media can pay off in advertising dollars.  If you want to explore more ideas, send us an email.  If you want to use any of our images, please donate $3 per image to keep these offerings coming. 

Keep us in mind for your digital matting needs, and tell your friends about us.  We appreciate your business, feedback and ideas.  Visit often, because you never know what kind of new things we will have to offer next.

This month, a new presentation idea was created that we thought was worth sharing with our audience.  Spinning off from our digital awards ideas, a new category of digital design led to the creation of decorative plaques.  The humorous design that follows was the most interesting we have seen so far, but there is plenty of room for growth along the lines of this method for using digital photography, matting and other digital design techniques.

This decorative design draws attention in more ways than one.

A lot of humorous ideas have been showcased on the site, because we have a penchant for comedy.  In addition to the lighthearted material, this digital method can also be used to produce encouraging results like inspirational themes, sentimental compositions, and other depth pieces with a broad range of personal appeal. 

Because of the rich, subtle colors in these designs, our work is best viewed in a digital picture frame or screen wallpaper format, but can also be printed and framed conventionally as well.  When people ask about producing hard copies of the work, it is important to remember that printing most digital photos can result in stepping down in resolution values and variations in color due to the capabilities of the printing equipment.  Often, the differences are not enough to discourage printing the end results.

If you want to use our images, please donate $3 for each image downloaded.  If you would like us to design some material for you to own or resell, send us an email and open a dialog with us for bringing your ideas and digital creations to life. At this price and quality, our offer to matte your photos, create calendar pages, or other digital creations cannot last forever.  Can we design an original for you today?

As this month begins a new showcase of favorite items, the first offering swings back to yet another kind of comic award, which toasts Katie Couric and anyone else who might be the recipient of such an acknowledgement.  The item works best as a personalized presentation, but could get some laughs in its generic form as well.  There is plenty of celebrity fodder to create this kind of humorous twist.

Use faux celebrity awards to impress friends and add a twist of humor.

 The second favorite is a screen wallpaper matted photo of Spring colors in a budding tree.  While the picture shows accents of light and shadows, the matting compliments the shot using photo textures, color gradients, and more textured matte accents to make the end result a more interesting and unique look.  See if you are not drawn in by the mix.

Matting techniques enhance interest in this shot.

Our last item is another calendar page design to demonstrate a unique way to display the month’s personalized events, matted photo highlights with color accents and subtle gradient shading around the photo and events listing, and a complimentary contrasting gradient shading as the calendar background.  With the combinations of color, composition, style, and texture, it is easy to see what a wide variety of personalized designs we can offer.  We can do an entire year’s worth of calendar pages varying only the photos, or creating a unique page with every shot that is showcased.  For $3 per page, you will get a lot more to look at than the “built in” calendars available with some digital frames, and a lot less

B-O-R-I-N-G.

Calendars provide both utility and beauty when enhanced by personal photos.

We work hard to bring you interesting material on this site.  You are welcome to use the images you want by donating $3 per image for each item downloaded.  We are relying on the “honor system,” and copyrights so if you use our stuff and don’t contribute, it will not be around to take forever.  Thanks for viewing, and if you like what you see, tell a friend, or lots of friends would be even better.