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06 Mar 2010 March Favorites 2010 – Cactus
Around this time of year, I start thinking about how nice it is to head south for a taste of earlier spring.  This week I am showing off what photo matting can do for a patch of scruffy cactus we ran across while visiting the Alamo in 2008.  If you cannot get away for a relaxing trip, nice photo memories can help to bring back refreshing memories.  Share pictures that others will like looking at, even if they do not know where they were taken.  Enjoy.

Photo Matting Creations

Make your vacation pictures even better with photo matting from Matte Watch

Make your vacation pictures even better with photo matting from Matte Watch

Digital Calendars

A custom calendar can help you use your photos for beautiful creations.

A custom calendar can help you use your photos for beautiful creations.

Digital Awards

We make all kinds of cool awards for any occasion.

We make all kinds of cool awards for any occasion.

Inspirational and Humorous Plaques

Got some inspirations?  Don't hog them to yourself let me help you spread them around.

Got some inspirations? Don't hog them to yourself let me help you spread them around.

Custom Greeting Cards

Who needs to hear from you today?

Who needs to hear from you today?

Custom Promotional Products

We would love to help you brag about your company.

We would love to help you brag about your company.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Got good photos? We have nice matting, so let's put the two together.

If you want me to create a unique or custom 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.

27 Feb 2010 February Favorites 2010 – Aliens

This week’s fare offers more special photo effects, some shameless self promotion, and the hope that you will appreciate the strangeness so much you cannot resist buying something you like.  All the renderings require 1024 X 768 resolution and the absence of the copy right watermark to appreciate the full impact of the end results.  If you cannot bring yourself to purchase one of my unique and original works, check into letting me create something from your own photographic masterpieces.  For only $3, it beats trying to figure out how to do it yourself.  Enjoy.

Photo Matting Creations

Get some stunning visual effects by selecting from what you see.

Get some stunning visual effects by selecting from what you see.

Digital Calendars

Stare all month at your mesmerizing calendar pages.

Stare all month at your mesmerizing calendar pages.

Digital Awards

Need an award?  Virtual reality makes easy to own a showcase full!

Need an award? Virtual reality makes easy to own a showcase full!

Inspirational and Humorous Plaques

Stay focused on positive thoughts with your own inspirations.

Stay focused on positive thoughts with your own inspirations.

Custom Greeting Cards

Let me make you a true one-of-a-kind greeting card.

Let me make you a true one-of-a-kind greeting card.

Custom Promotional Products

We have the best $3 promotions money can buy.

We have the best $3 promotions money can buy.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Whether your photos are good or bad, I can make them memorable.

Whether your photos are good or bad, I can make them memorable.

If you want me to create a unique or custom 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.

13 Feb 2010 February Favorites 2010 – Week 2
This week centers on the Valentine’s Day theme.  There is a curious tendancy for some to refer to the holiday as “Valentimes Day” rather than the correct reference in honor of Saint Valentine.  As our language ages, there are a number of misdirections picked up by those who learn words by ear more than by spelling reference.  A person at work swore that “chester drawers” was the correct reference to a chest of drawers.  In matters of love, the words are important, so make sure you get it right.  On with the show.

Photo Matting Creations

Matted photos and special effects can have a dramatic impact.

Matted photos and special effects can have a dramatic impact.

Digital Calendars

Make calendar pages that highlight monthly holidays.

Make calendar pages that highlight monthly holidays.

Digital Awards

Tell your valentine how special they are with a valentine award.

Tell your valentine how special they are with a valentine award.

Inspirational and Humorous Plaques

Inspirational and humorous plaques make good gifts.

Inspirational and humorous plaques make good gifts.

Custom Greeting Cards

Let us craft a unique greeting card that says it the way you feel it.

Let us craft a unique greeting card that says it the way you feel it.

Custom Promotional Products

Let us create a promotion that can be displayed in your business, or sent out by email.

Let us create a promotion that can be displayed in your business, or sent out by email.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Turn your photos into works of art and commemorate your memories.

Turn your photos into works of art and commemorate your memories.

If you want me to create a unique or custom 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.

23 Jan 2010 January Favorites 2010 – Week 4

This week I decided to select a photo and treatments that reflect ideas wrapped up with my winter blues.   The sequence of offerings verify that it is possible to start with just about anything, and make something worthwhile from it.  All the treatments were designed for 1024 x 768 display, which means the thumbnail renditions do not reflect the full resolution of the actual display, but give you a notion of what you might expect to see in general on these versions of the pictures.    If you want a copy of the full graphic, just buy it for $3, and I will give you a copy of anything you order to use in your digital picture frame, on your computer screen, or any other way you want to display it at 1024 x 768.

Photo Matting Creations

Even photos with limited color can be matted with complimentary treatments.

Even photos with limited color can be matted with complimentary treatments.

Digital Calendars

We can create a perpetual calendar with your favorite shots.

We can create a perpetual calendar with your favorite shots.

Digital Awards

Would you like to award your town with this?

Would you like to award your town with this?

Inspirational and Humorous Plaques

I personally thank Bing Crosby for this one.

I personally thank Bing Crosby for this one.

Custom Greeting Cards

This one shows why we sometimes forget...

This one shows why we sometimes forget...

Custom Promotional Products

Promote your business to catch customer attention

Commemorative Photo Treatments

A winter to remember.

A winter to remember.

If you want me to create a unique or custom 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.

05 Dec 2009 December Favorites 2009 – Inspirations

Inspirational plaques from photos.

Hypnotic Inspiration

Hypnotic Inspiration

Imagination makes a difference.

Imagination makes a difference.

Looking ahead.

Looking ahead.

Autumn inspiration.

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.

29 Nov 2009 Weekly Photo Contest 11/29 to 12/31/09

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.

Make a choice and be a winner.

28 Nov 2009 November Favorites 2009 – Fall Digital Awards

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.

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.

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 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?

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.

16 Nov 2009 November Favorites 2009 – Commemorative Photo Treatments

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.

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

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

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

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.

14 Nov 2009 November Favorites 2009 – Digital Calendar Designs
This week, my digital calendar designs bring four more variations on matted calendar themes which work well for digital picture frames, screen wallpapers, or even as prints.  I started with the basic matted photos from last week, and worked them into the calendar formats with accents and compositions that bring out the unusual in each of the photo selections.  Personalized events could also be added to track important dates for work, appointments, or any other occasion worth noting.  Each calendar offers a unique and distinct showcase for your quality digital photos that will be different for every month of the year.

My first design for this week provides a bright mixture of colors and textured accents to get you in the mood for the fall season.  I decided to use this design as my own screen wallpaper for the month.  With enough space to add events and company logos, this would be a good basic promotional calendar design for just about any business to capture the attention of customers who are ready to see something memorable from your business.

Calendars make great desktop accents.

Calendars make great desktop accents.

The second offering of the week is a brightly colored calendar cube design that has enough punch to satisfy any calendar buying enthusiast.  I like to use this kind of design in my digital picture frame to add dimension and flair to any room in the house.  This calendar page is tempting to keep on hand after the month has passed.  It is also good for posting event information in a simulated metallic etching, all at no extra cost per image.

Who says calendars have to be boring?  Not me...

Who says calendars have to be boring? Not me...

If you like green marble texture, the third calendar for this week will appeal to your senses along with the embedded matted photo accent which further enriches the image.  This composition might go well with marble counter tops or other marble design accents around the house.  Using virtual materials makes it easy and affordable to look rich on a working person’s salary.

Virtual elegance can be yours now.

Virtual elegance can be yours now.

The last calendar for the month uses metallic accents to enrich the fall photo theme, through a blend of textured copper and brass coloring in a simple, yet elegant design.  This type of calendar design also lends well to promotional calendar purposes, adding snap and value to events, advertising, and company logo impressions.  All these digital designs carry the added value of being produced once, then replicated as many times as needed for no extra cost or effort.  Just get a page and send it to all your customers or friends via email or by loading them directly into a digital picture frame.  By spreading the electronic images, there are no mailing or printing costs to make a big hit.  Where else can you get designs like these for so little?

Beef up your promotional reach for less than a song...

Beef up your promotional reach for less than a song...

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.

31 Oct 2009 October Favorites – Flower Power Digital Greeting Cards

This week, I bring to a close the representative examples of how one set of four matted digital photos can be expanded in a variety of different presentations.  Though I have displayed several variations of examples over the past few weeks, the unique treatments have shown only one possibility for each offering.  With digital photo frame content, each new presentation format can be complimented by more combinations of backgrounds, color, and prose which bring added interest to your own eye for subject matter.  Each new photo treatment is created with the goal of increasing appreciation for the original work on display.

As I put together the greeting cards for the week, I took the time to design something that was inspired directly by the visual composition.  Some of the designs were easier to do than others, but all of them represent something that pointed to someone I know and enjoy being with.  This first card would be a thoughtful message to send to a friend who might enjoy receiving an uplifting message.

Give a friend (and me) a lift.  Send them a digital greeting card today!

Give a friend (and me) a lift. Send them a digital greeting card today!

When I get started writing greetings, it never takes long to turn toward the humorous side of life for a quick chuckle.  The second greeting might be taking a bit of a chance to give your spouse on a wedding anniversary, so it would be a good idea to have a back up plan ready in case the sentiment goes unappreciated.  I thought this idea would work for those who are married to someone with a good sense of humor and a tight budget.

Cute, now what did you really get me for our anniversary?

Cute, now what did you really get me for our anniversary?

My third digital greeting card would make a nice birthday greeting for someone who sees themselves as a bit on the nerd side of the fence.  If you think this item is funny, you might want to try this one out on one of your friends.  Of course being labeled as a “square” is a bit out of date for some people, politically incorrect, and potentially over the top, but who cares?  I liked the way it came out, so here it is.

It all depends on how you look at it...

It all depends on how you look at it...

My last birthday greeting card for the week was designed to be gifted by the over thinkers among us.  If you are the type of person who needs a justification for every action, and who will look at everything you can find before making a decision, then you may want to bookmark this card to come back to, when you have finished your search.  Rest assured that when you come to me to help you create that special greeting card you have always wanted to give; I can put together a nice piece of work that will not be found on every shelf in town. 

It is nice to think someone goes to a lot of trouble to find the right card.

It is nice to think someone goes to a lot of trouble to find the right card.

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.

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