Job Descriptions of a Digital Image Retoucher
With the advent of the digital photography age, magazines, newspapers, and ordinary people have a vast array of opportunities to edit and enhance their photos. Professional digital image retouchers manage and manipulate digital images to produce the highest-quality images possible.
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Duties
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A digital image retoucher is responsible for taking digital images and manipulating them to produce a high-quality product. They typically utilize certain computer programs, the most popular of which is Adobe Photoshop, to edit an image. This could include pixel-level editing and compositing, airbrushing a model's face or body, enhancing or diminishing color quality, and adding or deleting objects from an image.
Work Environment
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Digital image retouchers can work as freelancers, through an agency, with a wedding/event photographer or for companies such as magazines and newspapers. While retouchers working for a company typically have a 40-hour work week, freelancers can set their own schedules and adjust their workloads according to their needs.
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Salary
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According to Salary.com's Salary Wizard, the annual median salary for digital photo editors as of August 2010 ranges from $53,226 to $70,884.
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References
- Photo Credit happy photograph image by Laser from Fotolia.com
