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Chrome Photography

by Alexandra Varipapa

June 2008

Image: Theo Adamstein Photo by Paul Simkin

Bring your old and deteriorated family photographs into the Chrome Imaging team and they will scan them, retouch the flaws and cracks, and organize them into a family history book. You can include photos from all the way back to your great-grandparents and finish with new digital photos you just took yesterday. This service is also available online; Chrome offers complementary software to create your book in the comfort of your own home.

You can also create personalized calendars, greeting cards, business cards and an endless list of other products at Chrome.

“You can make some really knockout coffee table books,” said Theo Adamstein, the founder of Chrome Digital. “Also, you have the convenience of ordering online and having it shipped to Chrome for no charge, and then just pick it up at the store which is just around the corner.”

The photography books created by Chrome are better quality than the other photo books offered online by other companies, Adamstein said. Also, because Chrome is right in your neighborhood you have more say over what is created for you, it is more personal. For example, you can see a sample or a proof before you proceed with printing your book, that way you can tweak anything that might need to be tweaked. The store is full-service and has in-house bookbinding. Chrome also offers very competitive prices.

Chrome began 26 years ago, in 1982, as a single-person business and expanded to the high-end photo lab and digital imaging studio it now is. It is the center of the photography world in D.C., museums, galleries and photographers—both amateur and professional—use their services. The possibilities are endless at Chrome Imaging, you can print you photos on watercolor paper or canvas, make it into a Holiday greeting card…Chrome isn’t just for the professional photographer!

Check Chrome out at their store on the corner of Wisconsin and Q, or online at www.ChromeDigitalPress.com or call 202-333-3270.