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

  • Computer-Controlled Color Photograph Printer Operator
  • Developer
  • Developing Machine Operator
  • Automatic Developer
  • Automatic Print Developer
  • Film Developer
  • Film Developing Machine Operator
  • Full Stack Developer
  • Photograph Developer
  • Photographic Hand Developer
  • Print Developer
  • Printed Circuit Board Panels Developer
  • X-Ray Developer

  • 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.
  • Examine developed prints for defects, such as broken lines, spots, or blurs.
  • Fill tanks of processing machines with solutions such as developer, dyes, stop-baths, fixers, bleaches, or washes.
  • Immerse film, negatives, paper, or prints in developing solutions, fixing solutions, and water to complete photographic development processes.
  • Load digital images onto computers directly from cameras or from storage devices, such as flash memory cards or universal serial bus (USB) devices.
  • Operate machines to prepare circuit boards and to expose, develop, etch, fix, wash, dry, or print film or plates.
  • Operate scanners or related computer equipment to digitize negatives, photographic prints, or other images.
  • Produce color or black-and-white photographs, negatives, or slides, applying standard photographic reproduction techniques and procedures.
  • Review computer-processed digital images for quality.
  • Select digital images for printing, specify number of images to be printed, and direct to printer, using computer software.

  • Apply decorative coloring to photographs or printed materials.
  • Load digital images onto computers or websites.
  • Operate photographic developing or print production equipment.