COMPANY: John R. Hartman | URL: www.jhartman.com | TYPE: Actions, images, movies | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: Varies
	QuickMats 3 is the fourth-generation version of John Hartman's digital matting software. With QuickMats 3, you can create an incredibly realistic mat for any size image. With openings as small as 1" and as large as 40", and eight different aspect ratios from 1:1 square all the way to 4:1 extreme panoramic, you can easily mat virtually any digital image in your portfolio. QuickMats 3 comes with over 640 mat openings in rectangle, oval, square, circle, even letter, number and assorted shapes mat openings. You specify the size outside mat while you position one, or up to 40 mat openings in any size and shape on a single mat. Click a single Photoshop action and your mat is built. Once you have built your mat, you can save it as a template if you expect to use the design again. Then you can customize the mat with any combination of colors, textures, even patterns and photo overlays for a look so real you'll have to run your fingers over it to know it's not a real mat! You need Photoshop 7 or greater to run QuickMats 3. No other special software is required. Best of all, QuickMats 3 is easy to learn with a 60 page full color manual plus 24 narrated QuickTime HELPMovies to get you up and running in no time. QuickMats images can be included in all your product lines as add-ons to your sale. Whether you create portrait images, wedding photographs or fine art prints, a QuickMat version will add value and extra worth to your client. You save them a trip and the extra expense of the custom framer. You get both a larger print and a larger frame sale while you eliminate your mat inventory and production hassles. A portion of the manual shows you how to price QuickMats products to build your sale. You’ll get the QuickMats templates John built and uses at his studio to raise the average purchase by over $164 without increasing prices or fees. You will also get some tested ideas on how to set a reasonable price structure for your QuickMats products. QuickMats Album: Create QuickMats pages for custom portrait and wedding albums (see sample below). QuickMats Album is a set of 135 QuickMats files created to be used specifically for pages in portrait and wedding album designs. The files are set up in 5x5, 10x10 and 11x14 page sizes but can be adjusted to any size your album company or book designer software requires. QuickMats Album contains a wide variety of single and multiple opening choices, and can be modified with your QuickMats 3 action set as you would any other QuickMats 3 file. Included is a special QuickMats Album action set that allows you to custom color and texture the entire set of files as many ways as you would like and save them as ready-to-use template sets. QuickMats Album comes on a separate CD and requires QuickMats 3 to run.