Today’s pic should be of interest to bird watchers.  The matting treatment accentuates colors in the photo and provides a nice compliment to the composition.  Matted photos can make a nice base for calendars and greeting card compositions as well. 

Digital Photo Matting

Birds make nice subjects for photos and matted pictures.

If you have not yet fallen in love with my photo treatments, you might not appreciate what goes into the process of creating them for you.  Here are some things that set these treatments apart:

1. When you buy traditional matting, your picture is fitted to the available mattes.  With our treatments, the matting is matched to your photo, and is often created from aspects of your photos.

2. Once your digital photo has been matted, there is no slippage, no need for subsequent adjustments, and the matte will remain as fresh as the photo.  If you choose to print your matted photos and hang them in conventional frames, you can print a fresh copy as often as needed, at a minimal expense.  This is not true for traditional mattes bought in stores.

3. Custom matting can be created for your pictures that does not force you to choose from a bunch of inappropriate templates, or limited supplies.

4. Your matting costs are minimal when compared with having a picture matted for framing using traditional methods.

5. You can have your photos reproduced with a variety of matting choices that can be easily interchanged according to your tastes.

6. Turn around time for photo matting is quicker and much less expensive than taking pictures to a frame shop for mounting.

These are just a few of the reasons why you should consider this fun way to enrich your photographic efforts.  If you are new to the idea, grab a couple of your photos and upload them to the site.  Matting a photo costs about the same as printing a digital picture in a discount photo print shop.  Since you pay nothing until you approve your photos, there is nothing to lose in giving us a try.  Let me know how I can serve you today.

Matted Photos

Just one photo accent possible with digital matting.

If you are considering ways to recognize someone for a notable achievement, excellent service, personal accomplishment, or even as a way to stir up a few laughs, you should consider Matte Watch as the first place to look for what you have in mind.  Our digital award creations give you many advantages which include:

1. You get a custom award image design with all the richness of physical trophies, plaques, or certificates, without the high cost of physical production.

2. You can have a unique award made for any occasion for only $3 per image.

3. My designs can be displayed in digital picture frames, regular frames, or printed.  Digital images will last forever, as fresh as the day they were made, without taking up a large amount of shelf space to display.

4. Digital images are unbreakable, efficient to store, and in some cases, look better than physical award designs.

5. Employee awards can be retained and attached to emails to show prospective employers evidence of significant accomplishments and contributions made to an organization which is verifiable and impressive.

6. Production costs are low, delivery speed is fast, and recipient appreciation is high.

7. Custom design means you do not have to browse through a ton of templates to figure out what kind of recognition you want to choose.  You work directly with me to get what you want. 

8. You pay nothing until you approve the final design proposal, so there is no risk to you in seeing what you are going to get.

9. This is the most flexible, high quality, and lasting way to achieve the recognition you want to give at the lowest possible cost for a custom product.

These are just a few of the many reasons to look into using our services for your next recognition event.  Can we build a dazzling image for you today?

Custom Digital Awards

Many different rich designs are possible with digital awards.

In case you want to think about what makes buying calendars from this site any different from other places, here are some things to consider:

1. We make completely custom calendars with designs that are based on your photographs, not just dropped into a prefabricated selection of template backgrounds.

2. We use a variety of layout styles which are not readily seen elsewhere in addition to offering more familiar layouts according to what you prefer.

3. Our custom designs can start at any time of the year and include as many months as you want to purchase for each package. 

4. Your calendar pages can utilize a perpetual design on request,  which lets you save and use them again in later years as appropriate. 

5. We can build your design to display in either portrait or landscape orientation, at whatever resolution your frame uses according to your choice.

6. We can add events of your choice to many design formats.

7. We can complete designs for your approval prior to your payment. 

8. Our calendars are priced to give you maximum value at the lowest possible price for a one of a kind design. 

9. When we design calendar pages with multiple months showing on each page, we can reduce the cost of your custom design to as little as $3 per yearly set when you buy a graphic that includes all 12 months on a single image.  We can make products to fit almost any budget.

These are just nine reasons why I think you should look into buying my products, but maybe you have more that I have not listed here.  If you want to give our service a try, we will be happy to consider what you have in mind. 

Digital Calendar Designs

Your calendar design is made according to your photo content.

Working with people to create designs, I sometimes connect with customers that do not seem to understand why our products are priced the way they are.  This tells me that some people do not understand the value of what we are offering.  Here’s a quick example to think about.  When you go  to a store and look for a calendar, you may be able to buy one for as little as one dollar.  The reason you can do this is because the manufacturer of that calendar has mass produced the product hoping to sell enough copies of the same thing to recover the cost of their investment, and make a profit from the work.  This principle is at work for many kinds of different products.  A person creates a single product line, then replicates sales to customers as many times as possible.  What makes our work special is that we provide a single unique custom product design for each of our customers.  You do not have to search forever through endless templates to plug your photos into, nor a generic calendar designed to add your photos.   With our digital matting, calendars, awards, plaques, greetings, and other designs, we start with your naked photos, then build the product we will sell to you from scratch.  In general, this is done for $3 per image, which is about the same price you pay to print a copy of your picture in a discount store.  We think that giving you a truly custom design may turn out to be crazy on our part, but for now, we are offering this exceptional value to give you a chance to see what a difference our service can make in giving you greater enjoyment from your digital pictures and the way you display them. 

Most of the postings on this site are made up from my own photos as a way to give you an idea of some product possibilities rather than providing a strict template for how your work will be completed.  As we move forward, we may find that our approach needs to change, and shift our focus toward mass sales of replicated designs.  So, what is so special about our work?  The answer is the truly unique approach we use in custom designs from your photos.  You are invited to give this special service a try.  I think you will be glad you did.

While I was thinking about my next post, the following inspiration came to mind.  I was stirred to share this creation because there are many people who need this thought right now, and many more who will need it at some point in their life.  In my own experience, it is something that has always worked effectively during times that would otherwise bring despair, anguish, and loss of hope.  Since the information was freely given to me, it is freely given away.  I hope it will encourage you.  Feel free to share your thoughts and comments.  To order this image free of charge, send me an email at jdir@bhotechnologists.com and tell me you want to receive the plaque in this post.  Please refer to the posting date.

Devotional Digital Plaque

To God be the Glory.

Sometimes you might have a photo that you like, but you want to make adjustments or have the background changed to something different.  In the following sequence, I started with an original scanned image, and re-composed the photo in a number of different ways as shown.

Original Image Scanned by Customer

An original scanned photo image to be worked.

Re-composed and Matted Variations

Re-composed portrait from scanned original.

Re-composed landscape orientation from scanned original.

Re-composed landscape variation from scanned original.

If you want to have a different background added to a portrait, align a scanned photo to remove uneven white edges, or make other re-composition adjustments, we may be able to help you get the look and effect you want.

Want to tell your friends about all the cool stuff from Matte Watch?  Email them a business card and spread the word.  Check with us first when you need a quality digital content product.

In our first episode of this digital series, Littlehead was caught in a sea of glunk, hopelessly floating and waiting for a rescue.  After some fancy moves, the wake from a ski boat beached our hero, and he was able to roll on.  After floating so long in the glunk, Littlehead puffed up to the size of a bowling ball.  As it turned out, there was a nearby bowling alley where Littlehead was able to sip some suds, regain his strength, and bowl a few lines against the local league champs.

In the photo, Littlehead smiles as he picks up his seventh straight strike, rolling a Brooklyn and putting his competition to shame.  Slipping away from the crowd after a small celebration, Littlehead hitched a ride with a trucker and headed out for the open road.  Somewhere outside the city of San Antonio, Texas, Littlehead was asked to leave the truck for saying, “Man, it doesn’t get any better than this,” one too many times.  Littlehead offered the driver a chance to use his handicap parking sticker if he could ride a bit more, but the deal fell through.

Littlehead rolls a Brooklyn.

Sometimes life hands us a bitter pill to swallow, but we manage to get through the hard times if we just take the time to remember that it just does not get any better than this.  Are you curious about what will happen next?  Come back anyway, because there are a whole lot of cool moves left in this little guy.  There might even be some gum in it for you if you play your cards right, or you might get to see some sights in beautiful San Antonio.

In this last installment for the stained glass matting effect, I have provided another matted photo which offers a textured look which derives the base colors from to photo and presents a mosaic design in the outer matte for the photo.  Depending on the photo, using the photo colors to create variations on matte color design should provide interest and a wide range of styles for this kind of matting.  All these designs would cost $3 to create, so if you are a stained glass fan, let us put some together for you.  Thanks for visiting, and come back often for more surprises.

Digital Stained Glass Designs

A combination of color and style variations keep these treatments unique.