SKILLS & CAPABILITIES:
Retouching:
- Color Correcting
- Image Silhouetting
- Image Composites
- Jewelry
- Reflective
- Beauty, Skin
- Current Versions of Adobe Photoshop, Bridge, & Lightroom
- Photo Mechanic
- Capture One
- Familiarity with RAW format
- High Volume Workflow
- Batch Editing
- Web Optimization
- On Figure Styling
Other:
- Attention to Detail
- Quality Control
- Consistency
- Multi-Tasking
- Team Management / Training
- Communication with Clients and Co Workers
- Excellent organizational skills
- Problem Solving
- Microsoft Powerpoint & Excel
- Wordpress, Squarespace & Tumblr
- Large, medium, and 35mm format film scanning
- Ink-jet printing
- Image Archiving
- Image Trafficking
- Book/Album Layout Design & Editing
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Eileen Fisher
www.eileenfisher.com
Los Angeles, CA Sept 2017 - Present
Freelance Retoucher
Offsite retoucher for retail brand working in imagery for ecommerce, editorial, print etc.. I work directly with the Retouching Manager based in New York. Images include skin work, color correcting, and masking. Consistency in tones and color matching is especially important, as well as organization and needing little direction.
Free People
www.freepeople.com
Los Angeles, CA April 2017 - Present
Freelance Retoucher
Offsite retoucher of retail brand's e-commerce images. I work directly with the retouching manager, based at the Urban headquarters in Philadelphia. Retouching workflow includes web images from ready to wear to still life, and involves a lot of skin retouching, especially.
Outer Gamut
www.outergamut.com
Los Angeles, CA May 2017 - Present
Freelance High End Retoucher
Offsite retoucher for post production studio. Hired to work on UGG's 2017 and 2018 photo campaigns. Images are retouched to a very high standard, with extreme attention to detail. With high volume and tight deadlines, consistency, organization and good communication are all key.
P.F. Candle Co.
www.pfcandle.com
Los Angeles, CA July 2019
Freelance Retoucher
Hired to retouch all product images for website re-design. Images were all still product shots, with a range of backgrounds. Worklfow included retouching reflective surfaces, cleaning backgrounds, and color correction. Comping of new labels onto products was also required. I worked from my home office via file transfer, directly with the marketing director.
Barneys NY
www.barneys.com
Los Angeles, CA Sept 2015 - Jan 2017
Freelance Retoucher
Seasonal freelance retoucher for ecommerce division of Barneys. I worked directly with the Image manager located at the New Jersey headquarters. I mostly edited high end ready to wear - brands from Oscar de la Renta to Yeezie. Images were retouched for skin, color, sample/garment wrinkles and blemishes, and all images were silhouetted to white. Very high volume with tight deadlines given that I worked during holiday rush seasons. I was offered to relocate and work in house when my freelance term ended.
Bill Blass
www.billblass.com
Los Angeles, CA September 2015 – Jan 2017
Contract Retoucher & Graphic Designer
Offsite retoucher of Ready to Wear and Still Life Product for designer brand re-launch, headquartered in NYC. I work directly with the photographers, apparel designers, and web designers. Aside from retouching high end, high res looks both on model and still life, I also organize and archive images and am in constant contact with the web design team. With the launch this position has been immensely deadline oriented and communication as a whole team has been extremely important. Other tasks include the design and layout of emailers, etc.
Tory Burch
www.toryburch.com
Los Angeles,CA July 2015 – May 2016
Contract Retoucher
Remote retoucher for designer brand 's NYC headquarters. Tasks include retouching ready to wear and still life product, namely bags and jewelry. Edits undergo a strict series of revisions before going live on the website. Maintaining a very high level of consistency with the brand's aesthetic and guidelines along with extremely strong attention to detail and quality are a must, along with meeting deadlines and good team communication with in-house retouchers and art directors.
Orchard Mile
www.orchardmile.com
Los Angeles, CA April 2016
Freelance Retoucher
Offsite retouching for fashion editorial spread. High end retouching of skin and still life - including jewelry, cropping to site specifications and prepping for web, while keeping in communication with stylists, photographer and art directors.
DAILYLOOK
www.dailylook.com
Los Angeles, CA March 2015 – September 2015
Retoucher
In house full time retoucher for e-commerce fashion site until the companies downsizing, then remote freelance retoucher. I worked directly under the retouching manager on a variety of images including ready to wear, full looks and editorials. Within weeks of starting, the retouching team was ahead of the workload for the first time and I was able to identify and address ways to remain more efficient. This position required a strong attention to detail as well as the ability to multi task while meeting strict deadlines. Position also required upload of all images to the live site, as well as quality control checks of the site itself for any errors. Good communication between retouching team, managers, photographers and stylists was a must.
Sam Edelman
Offsite, May 2014 - Spring 2015
http://www.samedelman.com/
Retoucher
Offsite, freelance retoucher for retail brand. Workflow includes retouching ready to wear, editorials, and shoes for press and web. Main tasks include retouching skin and hair on live models, taking out wrinkles, lengthening or shortening articles of clothing, compositing images, and color correcting products. Other tasks include renaming and sorting files, cropping to brand's specifications, and lining up images for consistency.
love, Alex
Offsite, May 2014 - Spring 2015
http://www.lovealex.com/
Retoucher
Offsite, freelance retoucher for retail brand. Tasks include retouching skin and hair on live models, and general retouching of bags and jewelry - straightening, color correcting, cleaning reflectives, etc. Images are transferred via FTP and saved with layers as psds, cropped jpgs, and web ready jpgs.
Vente-Privee (USA)
New York, NY, June 2013 – January 2015
https://us.venteprivee.com
Senior Retoucher
Retoucher for high end e-commerce site of products ranging from designer ready to wear and lingerie, home wares, and jewelry. Tasks include color correction, silhouetting, image composites, maintaining high levels of quality control and consistency, image trafficking, managing team training and workflow, managing freelancers, etc. This position is extremely deadline driven with a very heavy volume daily, and reliant on good communication not only within the team but also with event producers, photographers, and art directors.
Maeven, New York, NY
Fall 2012 - Fall 2013
www.shopmaeven.com
Retoucher (Freelance)
Product & beauty retoucher for the online clothing retailer. Mainly involving silhouetting products and models onto clean backgrounds, skin retouching and color correcting, matching product color profiles, and optimizing for web.
Refinery29
New York, NY, Fall 2012
www.refinery29.com
Assistant Photo Editor (Freelance)
Hired on a freelance basis leading up to and during Fashion Week. The position involved retouching for both beauty and product (in conjunction with the Refinery29 Shops retail site), web optimization, layout and design work, photo editing, photo research and budgeting, and occasional photo shoot assistance. The position was extremely deadline driven.
Paula Allen Studio
New York NY September 2009 - Spring 2015
www.paula-allen.com
Studio Manager
This position generally involves all retouching of images both digital and film, for web and press. Namely color correcting and web optimization. Other duties include creating workflow, batch editing, film scanning, communicating with various press editors, and utilization of great organizational skills. I am currently web coordinator and designer for Ms. Allen's project with Haitian women, OFEDA Haiti ( www.ofeda.com ) I also maintain Ms. Allen's personal website.
The position is also a book editing position. I have worked with Ms. Allen on everything from scanning film to editing and retouching images, creating layouts and editing text for her book Flowers in the Desert. I also designed and ran a Kickstarter campaign to help cover publishing costs.
Lilian Haidar Photography
New York NY May 2011 – April 2012
http://www.lilianhaidar.com
Photo Editor & Retoucher (Freelance)
Main tasks included editing high volumes of high end wedding and travel photography in Photo Mechanic, as well as color correcting in Lightroom, and retouching in Photoshop. Other duties included some studio management, assisting on location/travel assignments, and album design and layout.
Photographer, Photo Editor & Retoucher
New York, NY Spring 2010 – Spring 2011
http://taracassadyphoto.tumblr.com/
I ran a small freelance business from my home studio editing events for local photographers Kat Cheng, Jayd Gardena, & Jennifer Boyle. Included raw batch editing of weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs in Lightroom under tight deadlines, generally for web. Occasionally included working as a 2nd shooter for events as well. I also photographed and edited several events on my own during this time.
Julia Newman Photography
Brooklyn NY, May 2009 – March 2010
www.julianewmanphotography.com
Image Editor & Retoucher
Main task was editing and retouching high end, high volume weddings. Edits of 800+ images were done in Photo Mechanic and varied between being rough edited by photographer or myself. Using Lightroom and Photoshop; final retouching details included color correcting, beauty retouching, cropping, resizing, etc. Studio duties included handling invoices, emails, scheduling, image archiving, maintaining contacts, location scouting, updating blog, designing promotional material, handling publication submissions, and other general office duties.
Playback Clothing
New York, NY, April 2009 - September 2009
www.playbackclothing.com
Photgrapher & Photo Editor (Freelance)
Photographer and photo editor for Playback Clothing's 2009 Spring and Fall Catalogs, as well as the company website. Shoots were done on location and in studio, and consisted of both product on model and stills. Shoots were produced by Art Director Sarah Kasbeer. I was also sole editor and retoucher.
Brooklyn Photo Studio
Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2008 - 2009
www.brooklynphoto.com
Studio Assistant
Duties as assistant to photographers include digital tech during shoots, retouching, studio set up and break down, lighting, and assisting stylist as well as communicating with clients to ensure they are comfortable and have everything they need. Other duties include studio maintenance and running errands.
Anna Wolf Photography
Brooklyn, NY, Spring 2008
www.annawolf.com
Studio Intern
Assisted Photographer with duties such as scanning and retouching negatives, as well as retouching digital images. Other duties included handling lab orders, renting equipment, and invoicing.
Markus Klinko & Indrani Studio
New York, NY, Fall 2007
www.markusklinko-indrani.com
Studio Intern
Duties included assisting the set up of lighting and equipment for celebrity and high fashion photoshoots, assisting stylist GK Reid with wardrobe, and assisting the studio manager with office duties such as researching locations and props, studio organization, and running errands of various natures. Also assisted and observed image retouchers. Other tasks included taking charge of the organizing and inventory of the studio’s equipment storage facility.
Ocken Photography
Little Rock, AR, 2006 – 2007
www.ockenphotography.com
Studio Manager
Hired directly after college graduation, duties included assisting with photo shoots in studio and on location, with subject matter ranging from weddings to commercial product. Also headed all post-production, including photo editing, retouching and printing as well as general office duties, such as uploading images for online web hosting and archiving & organization, booking clients, scheduling photo shoots and meetings, and graphic design for mailers, blogs, etc.
EDUCATION:
Hallmark Institute of Photography
Graduated June 2006
Columbia College
Liberal Arts Major (Focus in Photography)
The Arkansas Times
Editorial & Photo Intern
Central High School
High School Diploma
* Acted as Photo Editor & Head Photographer for school newspaper The Tiger
both sophomore and senior years.