Photo Editor

FAM Brands • Los Angeles, CA

5h • $80,000 - $90,000 • Onsite

About The Position

FAM Brands is looking for a driven professional with a collaborative mindset to join our team as a Photo Editor.
In the role of Photo Editor, you will finalize and output images across a variety of marketing and merchandising projects, from quick-turn image refreshes, high volume eCom batches, and images for advertising. For any given project you may be called on for retouching – including color balance and manipulation, cleanup, compositing, masking, background extensions, and overall beautification of photographs in a timely and efficient manner. You will regularly collaborate with creatives and internal stakeholders across the businesses in the postproduction process.

Requirements

• Degree in Photography, Graphic Design, or specific education in digital photographic imaging principles and techniques, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience working in a high-volume retouching house, eCom retail or photo studio
• Experience with fashion, editorial, and still life retouching and post-production
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Bridge
• A MUST, knowledge & understanding of Frequency Separation retouching technique
• Strong and polished retouching skills
• Minimum knowledge in basic Capture One processing, exporting, and cropping
• Experience with resizing files for web, social and print

Responsibilities

• Retouching high volume e-commerce, product photography, wholesale, social media and still life flat images
• Ability to perform a task in masking, knocking-out background, compositing, cleaning, cloning, cropping, and QA
• Executing brand-retouching direction across all imagery
• Color correcting, ensuring color consistency between image assets
• Work well under pressure and flexibility to switch focus between multiple projects
• Adapt with changing workflow and last minute changes/requests
• Apply critical thinking skills to solve problems
• Track progress of all ongoing projects in Excel and Google doc or other PMO platform
• Maintain image archive and/or digital asset file naming organization in accordance with established processes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level