Martha DiMeo is passionate about photography,
Photoshop, and superb color reproduction.
During the course of her 30-year career, Martha has worked as a staff photographer for Hallmark Cards, as a Digital Imaging Specialist in educational publishing (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and for leading magazine titles (The New Yorker, Fortune, People). She established and managed in-house digital photography, prepress, and art production departments at The New Yorker, Cahners Business Information, and Elegant Publishing.
Martha’s entrepreneurial spirit lead her to launch ChromaQueen.com, a photo editing services company specializing in photo retouching and color correction for books, magazines, art publishers, marketing communications, and advertising clients.
Possessing expertise across the interdependent disciplines of photography, design, prepress, and digital media production, Martha brings an invaluable combination of skills to her retouching and color work.
- Earned a bachelor’s degree in photography from RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology)
- First digital camera ever used: the KanImage ProRes studio camera at The New Yorker magazine. The cost, a whopping $60,000!
- First version of Photoshop used: Version 2.5
- Crowned Queen of Chroma in 2007
- My Professional Hangouts: AIGA events, DesignxRI Clambake talks, WordPress Meetups
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