The next offering in this series was inspired by an image that came to me on a warm summer afternoon.  Why not express your own thoughts and let Matte Watch help you share them with your friends?  When you care to give the very best, we are waiting to bring your thoughts to life.  Click on the image to see a higher resolution version of the photo matting.  Enjoy.

Humorous Greetings

Some of the best humor comes with fleeting thoughts.

With my multi purpose templates you can create a nice greeting card for a friend or family member in a snap.  Using your photos as a starting point, makes each greeting creation a unique and personal experience.  It is easy to get more from all your photos when you use Matte Watch to help you stand out from the crowd.

Digital Greeting Cards

Create your own personalized greeting cards using your photos and Matte Watch templates.

Continuing in my desire to recognize memorable volkswalks sponsored by the American Volkssport Association, the next commemorative award highlights the Oklahoma City Capital Walk.  When I visited Oklahoma City, the walk included a visit to the Oklahoma City Memorial honoring those who died in the bombing that happened years back.  The area is a beautiful and quiet place which is worth seeing.  If you would like to know more about AVA activities, visit http://www.ava.org for more information about how to participate in these non-competitive activities.  Happy walking.

Volkswalk Award

Oklahoma City has interesting sights worth seeing.

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.

What can you get for the price of a drink that lasts forever these days?  The answer is plenty if you spend some of your drink money here.  The beauty of a digital photo matting treatment never fades, and puts your photos in a light that is just not possible with photographs alone.  You get an unforgettable memory and a work of art made from your original photos, and you get to keep your digital photos just as they came from your camera.  How many other places offer you so much for so little?  See how easy it is to get more from your memories, and send me a picture today.  Enjoy.

Inspirational Plaques

Do you have a photo worthy of inspiration?

After spending some time looking into the altered state of the photo subject for this creation, I decided to go with the following digital calendar for the month, just to see how a somewhat traditional design would look when combined with some non traditional features.  I liked it.  For a higher resolution look at the image, click on the picture.

Digital Calendar Creations

Matte Watch creations for the unusual minded.

Sometimes when setting up a sequence of commemorative photos in my digital picture frame, I like to alternate between a baseline matted photo, and a subsequent image of the same matted photo with the superimposed text appearing.  This gives the effect of the writing appearing and disappearing alternately as the images play out in the frame.  This makes for some nice variety in my photo presentations.  For a higher resolution look at the image, click on the picture.

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Commemorative photo treatments make nice additions of photo matting.

Having worked for a while now with calendar creations for digital picture frames, I have worked out some designs that I like to use in my own Pandigital picture frame.  Looking at the calendar display that came with the frame, I was immediately disappointed with the built in features, and the way it displayed my photos.  After reinventing the wheel with conventional looking calendars I created myself, I tried styles using landscape and portrait layouts.

Though these designs were much better than the built in job, I thought about what I was trying to showcase with my own calendar.  Certainly, I wanted the ability to see dates and events, but I also wanted the end result to primarily showcase the pictures I used for my calendars.  When I got the idea to use variations on perpetual calendars by day of the year, or daily designs which included events, I started seeing more of what I wanted my picture frame calendar to do for me.  What I settled for was a design with plenty of room to see the matted photos I wanted to look at, plus working in the data I wanted from a calendar.  Whether you like traditional or some of the designs presented on this site, I can put together a calendar that meets your needs.  For a higher resolution look at the design, click on the picture.

Digital calendar designs

Digital picture frame calendar designs are beautiful and handy.

One attractive aspect of American Volkssport Association sponsored events are the awards offered by clubs to encourage event participation.  These awards often take the form of patches, trinkets, pins, and other types of small reminders that add up quickly.  In fact, for those who love these awards as I do, the volume of patches and objects can soon add up to such a large quantity, it is hard to find ways to display them all.  Looking for ways to be rewarded and avoid the clutter, I came up with the idea of virtual awards like the ones I have been showcasing on this site.  The virtual awards allow walkers to earn the recognition, collect memories from many different event locations, and store hundreds of different award designs without taking up more space than a CD, sandisk, or flash drive can store.  There are also a large variety of ways these images can be displayed via prints, digital photo frames, computer screen wallpapers, slide-shows, screen savers, and image viewers.  It is like having all the benefits, and none of the wear and tear found with conventional awards.  Of course, this recognition still has to be earned in order to be legitimately received, but it is an ongoing way for walkers who love awards to keep getting recognition without the clutter. 

If you are a club leader or a walker who likes awards, but have no more room to store them, consider the virtual option to keep incentives alive, and have something inexpensive and memorable to offer your local achievers. 

The next award was designed to recognize another nice self-guided walk in Austin, Texas.  For more information about the AVA, visit http://www.ava.org and get started seeing what this wonderful activity has to offer.  To see a higher resolution version of the award, click on the image.

Fairview Park Austin Texas

All the recognition without the clutter. Check out the advantages of virtual awards.

The world of digital photography offers many new ways to view and utilize images.  These techniques go beyond simple photo prints, and framed display, bringing out inspirations worth a second look.  Click on the picture to see it in higher resolution.

Digital Promotional Products

Use your digital pictures to create interesting new images.