Today’s post is another floral composition that would make an excellent place to start for a multi purpose design.  Whether the image is used for an 8″ X 10″ print, 1024 X 768 digital image, a base image for a calendar, plaque, greeting card, screen wallpaper or promotional item, this image provides the lots of possibilities for attractive content.  If you want to order a custom treatment, copies of my own work, or just make a donation to the continuation of the ongoing work we do on this site, your feedback and contributions are welcome.  We are constantly working to improve our offerings and services to our valued business and individual customers.  Contact us anytime with your questions and ideas with no obligation.  Thanks for visiting, and tell your friends about us. 

Multi Purpose Templates

Our digital offerings beautify your home or business.

This post is another enhanced textured flower macro shot with added photo matting to compliment the theme of the work.  I liked the way this effect came out, so I am sharing this multi purpose template with my site audience.  If you would like to purchase a copy of this work without the copyright watermark, pay $3, send in an email and I will shoot a copy out to you.  For a closer look at the effects, click on the image.

Composite Images

Special effects enhance images and create new artistic value.

In this selection, the perspective and smoky bubble lens effects give this photo a certain “other worldly” quality that I liked about it.  The multi purpose template design allows you to create various treatments of the picture, including calendar, inspiration, greeting card, or even an award design just by adding text and saving a copy.  For a closer look in higher resolution, click on the image.

Multi Purpose Template

Commemorative Photo Treatments

Commemorate your photos with interesting compositions and highlights.

Happy July 4th to all Americans who celebrate our independence.  I am creating this award design to demonstrate how my multi purpose templates can be used to create a vivid award for a deserving person.  Whether you make your award for a company or just a close friend, the results can bring a smile of appreciation to somebody who needs to be recognized.  Do you have someone in mind?

Digital Awards

With our matting designs, you can create your own awards.

My next offering in the multi purpose template series shows how I turn the basic form into an eye-catching commercial.  Not found in stores, the only place you can buy a Matte Watch original design is right here on this web site.  You can look elsewhere for cool promotions for your frame, but you can only find me here.  Were you looking for something like this in the first place?  Better set up a bookmark so you will not forget where you saw it first.  Enjoy!

Digital Promotional Products

The digital promotion is a new way to advertise.

This posting illustrates how you might use a basic image template, as a foundation for adding your own thoughts to create an inspirational message plaque for your digital picture frame, computer wallpaper, or print.  Of course this approach requires beginning with an image that provides you with a canvas for having something inspirational to say.  If you have a profound thought you want to share with someone, the inspiration might occur before you have an image to help you illustrate it.  Ideas come from all sorts of directions.  Are you ready to share your own inspirations?

Inspirational Plaques

Images can be the source for many inspired 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.

My multi purpose template begins with a basic matted photo design, and then adds text or graphics to transform the picture into a form with utility.  You can purchase the basic design, then add enhancements to extend the use of the image into a wide variety of other images to display in a digital picture frame, as a computer wallpaper, or print the image to use as a wall hanging.  In the example below, I imposed a calendar on the graded color area to create a monthly calendar.  A day by day or perpetual calendar could be made by using the baseline image, and adding a month and day to the same shaded area, or by adding a day of the week, month, day, and year in text using almost any available graphics program like Paint.  Presuming you want to change the base image once per month, the total cost of this do it yourself method would be $36 per year.  Of course, I could also produce all these variations for you at $3 per image, but if you want to use your own creativity, the cost savings for using the multipurpose template made from your photos would be significant, and a fun project for you to try. 

Digital Calendars

Use a multipurpose template to create your own monthly, daily, or perpetual calendars.

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.