Matte watch offers a variety of items made from your photos and mine, including digital matting, inspirational and humorous plaques, awards, custom promotional, commemorative photo treatments, digital greeting cards, and digital calendars designed for your digital picture frame, computer wallpapers, or for you to create graphical prints and wall hangings.  The question is why?  My answer is that I have found a lot of enjoyment in the creative effort, and if I make a few bucks doing it, that is all right as well.  I offer you the variety because you should have a way to make your photos come alive, and allow them to please you beyond the original memories they invoke.  You may ask, “If I buy one of your photo treatments, can I resell them for myself?”  If you purchase one of my personal photo treatment images, I hold the copyright on those, so I would ask that you only purchase them for your enjoyment.  If you purchase images made from your photos, you can do as you wish in selling or republishing them, as long as you do not claim copyrights to the matting design enhancements, thus using only the image as a whole in going forward with your own plans.  Whew!  Now, on with my next personal offering.

 In the next series, I have created an idea for a multi purpose template design which can be used in a variety of ways that my next few articles will demonstrate.  Though this will have a limited scope, it may work well for a variety of picture types.  The following creation makes a nice matted image for display.

Digital Photo Matting

This matted photo of flowers is an eye popper.

The beauty of a digital picture frame is that images do not have to be singular or static.  Narrative commemorative photo treatments can be added to the pictures to bring detail that helps to explain images on another interesting level.  The pictures can be printed on using attractive colors and fonts to blend with the photo matting work, and enhance the enjoyment.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Use text with your photos to sign your work or record thoughts and feelings.

Every once in a while, there is an affirmation which blows away a lot of the smoke and trash that can easily accumulate against our vigilance in trying to keep our perspective clear and unfettered.  This inspirational plaque is offered as a free gift to anyone who can benefit from throwing the switch to shine a light on their own inner housekeeping.  Click on the image to get a copy at full resolution.  Enjoy.

Inspirational Plaques

Hopefully, this thought will knock some of the rust off your metal.

One of the frequent themes adopted for photos by amateur photographers are pictures of beautiful flowers.  As evidenced by some of the features on this site, I am no exception to the lure of floral attraction.  If you are thinking of getting rich on your flower shots, think again.  Many of the money making photo sites have received so many flower shots, they refuse to consider any more submissions of that type.  Oh well, I still use flowers to come up with some beautiful photo matting creations.  You can take advantage of all those pictures you have of flowers, and create a dazzling bouquet arrangement for your digital picture frame.  Send me your flower shots and watch their beauty blossom.

Digital Photo Matting

Your favorite flower photos make excellent photo frame decorations.

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.

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There are many ways to commemorate photos and events, but one sure way to keep track of both the image and information about the shot is to use a commemorative photo treatment from Matte Watch.  This method ensures you will always be able to remember the facts you want to preserve about your pictures without hunting down the information.  If your pictures are worth keeping, they are worth remembering, and digital technology makes it possible for everyone to enjoy your memories.  Give us a try.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Keep your thoughts and images together with a beautiful commemorative photo treatment.

Matted photos provide a nice foundation for greeting cards.  The following example shows how to turn your photos into a greeting that will make an impression and be appreciated by the recipient.  Since they can put these greetings in their digital picture frame, your sentiments can be appreciated all year long.  Using your own creations also help to ensure your greetings are one of a kind.  To look at this picture in higher resolution, click on the image. 

Custom Greeting Cards

Send a digital greeting that never gets old.

To add some spice to advertisements, digital photo frame promotions can help to caress potential customers rather than screaming at them.  I made this animation for the website, which could be reproduced in the context of a digital picture frame with a few adjustments.  Animations require multiple frames which can increase the size of the presentation files according to the number of frames that go into the animation.  If your digital frame can handle gif animations, it is one way to get attention.  If your frame cannot handle gif animations, a similar effect can be produced using multiple single frame displays.

Digital Promotional Products

Add impact with animation.

Over the years I have been taking digital photographs, I have worked with and even invented a variety of ways to organize and commemorate my pictures through software, prints, and other cataloging methods.  After starting my work with digital photo matting techniques, I began putting together the all-in-one method for displaying and remembering my favorite moments.  Using the digital matting techniques and incorporating text along with the photos, I found a means to recall, catalog, and display my pictures right in my digital picture frame.  This is an excellent way to maximize your appreciation of your favorite pictures, and share them with your friends and family who visit your home.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Commemorative photo treatments are an all-in-one catalog of favorite moments.

This week I hope you will be tickled by the offerings posted on the site.  I am working hard to provide enough ideas to inspire you to go out and get the pictures that mean something to you, and bring them here to treat them right.  I put together some creations that made me feel better about taking a picture of a feather on the ground.  I knew it would come in handy sometime.  Though I can work with most digital picture frame resolutions, I recommend using matted picture creations in a frame that is at least 10 inches.  Anything smaller than that just seems to lose impact.   Not that you cannot try it, but the smaller frames make your pictures look so small, they are not much good for regular photos either.  As the technology continues growing in popularity, you can get some of the larger frames for much better prices if you take the time to look around and compare.  On with the show.

Digital Photo Matting Creations

Make your photos works of art with my custom matting treatments.

Digital Awards

You can put a whole shelf load of awards to display in one digital picture frame!

Inspirational and Humorous Plaques

Turn your digital picture frame into an endless variety of inspirations.

Custom Digital Greeting Cards

Make those greeting cards last longer; frame them.

Custom Promotional Products

Use a digital picture frame to display a wide variety of business promotional messages.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Make your photos more memorable with prose and matting.

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?