Photo and Visual Editors

Role Title: Photo and Visual Editors Role Type: Contractor Location: Remote Opportunity Snapshot Pay: $55 - $100 per hour Location: Fully Remote, Worldwide You’ll need: Professional experience selecting, editing or retouching images for publication, clients or brands Your tasks: Review images, choose the best ones, correct technical problems and explain your decisions in writing You’ll review and edit images and judge their quality, accuracy and fit for a purpose. This is a good fit if you work as a photo editor, picture editor, visual editor or retoucher and make decisions about which images to use and how to correct them. Scope of Work • Look at sets of images and pick the strongest one for a given purpose. • Judge technical quality: exposure, focus, color, noise and cropping. • Mark images that were altered in a way that changes what they show. • Check that captions and descriptions match what the image actually shows. • Write a short explanation for each decision so a reviewer can follow your reasoning. • Correct or retouch images following a brief. What we’re looking for • Professional work as a photo editor, picture editor, visual editor, retoucher or photo producer. • Daily use of professional tools such as Lightroom, Photoshop or Capture One. • Experience delivering images to a real audience: print, web, social, broadcast or brand work. • Comfort explaining why one image works and another doesn’t. • Clear written English. How the selection process works • Apply with your resume and a short profile. • Complete the editing interview. It is a short conversation about your experience with image selection and editing. You don’t need to prepare, look at anything or write anything. Finishing it is what moves your application forward. • Review. We check your experience against what the project needs. • Onboarding and first task. If selected, you get the guidelines and start with an initial task, which is reviewed before you continue. Originally posted on Himalayas