Perform precision work involved in photographic processing, such as editing photographic negatives and prints, using photo-mechanical, chemical, or computerized methods.

• Airbrush Artist
• Colorist, Photography
• Developer
• Film Laboratory Technician I
• Photograph Retoucher
• Photostat Operator
• Projection Printer
• Reproduction Technician
• Spotter, Photographic
• Template Reproduction Technician

• Apply paint to retouch or enhance negatives or photographs, using airbrushes, pens, artists' brushes, cotton swabs, or gloved fingers.
• Clean and organize darkrooms, and maintain darkroom equipment.
• Color photographs to produce natural, lifelike appearances, using oil colors.
• Correct color work prints to adjust for outdoor filming.
• Create work prints according to customer specifications and lab protocols.
• Cut negatives and put them in order.
• Cut out masking templates, using shears, and position templates on pictures to mask selected areas.
• Dry prints or negatives, using sponges and/or squeegees, mechanical air dryers, or drying cabinets.
• Evaluate film and negatives to determine characteristics such as sensitivity to light, density, and exposure time required for printing.
• Examine developed prints for defects such as broken lines, spots, and blurs.
• Examine drawings, negatives, or photographic prints to determine coloring, shading, accenting, and other changes required for retouching or restoration.
• Examine quality of film fades and dissolves, and evaluate potential color corrections, using color analyzers.
• Expose film strips to progressively timed lights to compare effects of various exposure times.
• Immerse film, negatives, paper, or prints in developing solutions, fixing solutions, and water in order to complete photographic development processes.
• Ink borders or lettering on illustrations, using pens, brushes, or drafting instruments.
• Measure material to be copied, and compute percentages of enlargement or reproduction necessary, using rules, charts, or percentage scales.
• Mix developing and fixing solutions according to established formulas.
• Mount cameras on tripods or stands, and load prescribed types and sizes of film in cameras.
• Mount original photographs, negatives, or other printed material in holders or vacuum frames beneath lights.
• Place identification on film as necessary.
• Place sensitized paper in frames of projection printers, photostats, or other reproduction machines.
• Produce color or black-and-white photographs, negatives, and slides, applying standard photographic reproduction techniques and procedures.
• Produce timed prints with separate densities and color settings for each scene of a production.
• Read work orders to determine required processes, techniques, materials, and equipment.
• Record test data from film that has been examined, and route film to film developers and film printers for further processing.
• Reprint originals to enlarge them, or in sections to be pieced together.
• Rub erasers or cloths over photographs to reduce gloss, remove debris, or prepare specified areas of illustrations for highlighting.
• Select lens assemblies according to sizes and types of negatives or photographs to be printed.
• Set automatic timers, lens openings, and printer carriages to specified focus and exposure times, and start exposure in order to duplicate originals, photographs, or negatives.
• Shade negatives or photographs with pencils to smooth facial contours, soften highlights, and conceal blemishes, stray hairs, or wrinkles.
• Thread film strips through densitometers, and expose film to light to determine density of film and necessary color corrections.
• Thread film strips through sensitometers, expose film to light, and read gauges to assess light sensitivity.
• Trim edges of prints to enhance appearance, using scissors or paper cutters.

• assure quality control in printing processes
• compute production, construction, or installation specifications
• determine film exposure settings
• develop film or other photographic medium
• distinguish details in graphic arts material
• examine products or work to verify conformance to specifications
• fabricate, assemble, or disassemble manufactured products by hand
• identify color or balance
• load or unload material or workpiece into machinery
• maintain records, reports, or files
• make independent judgment in assembly procedures
• measure, weigh, or count products or materials
• mix paint, ingredients, or chemicals, according to specifications
• mix photographic chemicals
• operate cameras
• operate graphic reproduction equipment
• operate video recorders
• process photographic prints
• read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
• record test results, test procedures, or inspection data
• restore photographs
• retouch negatives or prints
• test manufactured products or materials
• understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
• use densitometer
• use hand or power tools