Today’s offering is a matted photo of a cluster of Japanese beetles doing what they do best.  The photo was taken in Eureka Springs Arkansas.  These destructive little buggers make a pretty picture, but they are not a desired resident in any garden.

Digital Photo Matting

Bad bugs

Most people I know that have purchased a digital picture frame take the first step of loading up family pictures, then finding a prominent place in a room to let the slide show play.  Unfortunately, if that is all you get around to doing with your frame, you are missing out on a lot of the additional really cool things you can do with your content.  Part of the reasons for this is that frame manufacturers have not caught on very well themselves to the flexibility and variety of images the hardware can be used to display.   Hopefully, exploring this site will help you find more decorative and interesting applications for this wonderful technology and open your eyes to the possibilities.  When you are ready to consider purchasing a frame, do not neglect the possibilities for filling it with a variety of decorative or commercial creative concepts that will help you get more for your money, and keep you engaged with the growing potential for crafting impressive uses for digital photo technology.  When you are ready to bring your own creative ideas to life, Matte Watch can help put them together for you.

Another idea I have seen commercially are businesses like apartment complexes using digital picture frames to display photos of various apartments, or Realtors showing off selected properties.  Even in these implementations, the businesses use only images of their properties without taking the additional step of turning their slide shows into more commercial aesthetic advertisements to promote their offerings.  Using digital photo matting and promotional copy to accentuate the displays can help viewers take away a more lasting impression from every visit.  Matte Watch can help in these areas as well.  Larger frames can be used in front office environments to greet visitors and introduce services while customers are waiting, rather than watching a television or looking at conventionally framed static art.

If you have your own ideas that you have been kicking around, contact us to see what we can do to help you get started with bringing them to life.  There are a host of new applications waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.

The Matte Watch  weekly photo contest makes it easy to enter and win beautiful awards and other prizes based on visitor participation.  Why have a contest every week even when nobody enters?  I want the door open to everyone for a chance to win.  Competing for a prize may be an encouraging start for you to showcase your photographic talents, and have something to show for your effort.

For the rest of the year, weekly contests are open to all family friendly themes.  Free to enter, and free to win.  We will even showcase your winning photos on our site  for a time if you wish.  

Weekly Photo Contest

First, second, and third place digital prizes available each week of participation.

Well, here is another “black” Friday rolling around, and I am in my own little Santa’s workshop putting together more wonderful things to show you.  This calendar design is just one of the many possibilities available.  Now would be a good time to join my calendar delivery subscription service to get a full 12 months of calendar pages starting in December 2010 for $36.   Customers may also designate when they want the service to begin when providing the details of the email address where these pages should be automatically sent each month.  If you would like to join the calendar subscription delivery service, just email me at jdir@bhotechnologists.com and I will get you started. 

Digital Calendars

Is there something else you have in mind?  Just send me an email, and I will let you know what I can do.  Thanks for visiting, and happy holidays.

On some occasions, sitting in a quiet environment helps to stimulate thoughts that lead to realizations.  I call these little flashes of pithy inspiration,  cubical thinking.  This experience lends form and substance as you ponder things you would prefer to be doing, rather than what you actually are doing.  With the right level of cubical thinking, you can spend less time zoning out, and more time focusing on  meaningful activities.

Digital Inspirations

You can store all your cubical thoughts in your digital picture frame.

You can stomp through the woods and gardens all year long and not find the flowers shown in this enhanced photo creation.  As I await matting requests, orders for photo treatments, or questions that need to be answered, sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.  Picture me sitting on the virtual sidewalk next to an open guitar case, passing out beautiful pictures to everyone who tosses three bucks into the kitty.  A humble beginning for someone being visited and appreciated by people all over the world.  How may I brighten your picture frame?

Digital Art

Can I send someone you know a beautiful bouquet for Christmas?

Whether inspired in photos or digital art spin offs from photos, there are lots of variations on matting and composite photo art to keep the eye and the mind busy with trying out new creations for display in a digital photo frame.  Though many people use their frames to display a set of family photos, there are a wide array of other treatments to keep the excitement alive.  This offering is another digital art composition I had fun putting together.   Thanks to everyone who takes time to comment on favorite posts.  If you do not have the $3 purchase price for your favorite post, you might win a free copy by participating in my Comment Roulette Contest.  All you have to do is leave a comment on your favorite post saying you want to win the Comment Roulette Contest, and leave a valid email where you want your copy to be sent.  If you do not like what you see, keep coming back for new items and more chances to win. 

Digital Art

It will never be easier to win one of my contests, so enter today.

This post is about a work of digital composite art that was built from various aspects of a photo which became something else as I manipulated the image to reach the end result.  The picture is titled “Mind Reflection” and it qualified as an artistic exploration of color and form which emotes different reactions from different people who view it.  What do you think?

Digital Art

A work of photographic inspired digital art.

When you buy your photo treatments from Matte Watch, it is like getting a boat load of value with every purchase.  You can resell your own photo works and cash in for yourself.  If you just want to make your photos look their best, nobody does it better than us for such low prices.  Got a bigger project in mind?  Send an email with your needs, and we will work out a price based on time and labor to complete the work. 

One of your photos is worth a thousand copies.