How do they match: 51-9151.00 - Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators

Perform work involved in developing and processing photographic images from film or digital media. May perform precision tasks such as editing photographic negatives and prints.

Apply paint, using airbrushes, pens, artists' brushes, cotton swabs, or gloved fingers to retouch or enhance negatives or photographs.
Create prints according to customer specifications and laboratory protocols.
Examine drawings, negatives, or photographic prints to determine coloring, shading, accenting, or other changes required for retouching or restoration.
Immerse film, negatives, paper, or prints in developing solutions, fixing solutions, and water to complete photographic development processes.
Operate scanners or related computer equipment to digitize negatives, photographic prints, or other images.
Operate special equipment to perform tasks such as transferring film to videotape or producing photographic enlargements.
Produce color or black-and-white photographs, negatives, or slides, applying standard photographic reproduction techniques and procedures.
Read work orders to determine required processes, techniques, materials, or equipment.
Retouch photographic negatives or original prints to correct defects.
Set automatic timers, lens openings, and printer carriages to specified focus and exposure times and start exposure to duplicate originals, photographs, or negatives.
Shade negatives or photographs with pencils to smooth facial contours, soften highlights, or conceal blemishes, stray hairs, or wrinkles.

How do they match: Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators