J B: Freelance Photo Editor/retoucher in Dana Point, CA

Worked with local and international photographers on fashion, editorial, beauty and wedding digital image retouching. Cleaned up skin without removing natural and essential textures. Reshaped figures and features to achieve maximum aesthetic effect while preserving believability. Employed a comprehensive understanding of advanced selection techniques and modifiers. Experience with color correction and matching to prints, products, and swatches. Utilized thorough knowledge of blending modes as applied to groups, layers, and tools. Complete meticulous and complex enhancements to images. Outline, retouch and assemble image files. Make creative and artistic decisions based on the client feedback. Prep images for print and web usage.

Photoshop retouching focusing on entertainment and international news for web. Keeping all PictureDesk editors informed via email, intranet of my work, recent news, headlines. Editing received images using Photoshop, captioning, uploading to site, sending to clients. Provided FTP support to clients. Checking site regularly and correcting, editing images if needed. Working on breaking entertainment events like award shows. Answering the phones on the news desk and reacting to breaking news stories.