2nd Shift Retouching & Prepress Operator
About the Company:
The hiring company is responsible for producing post-master, media-ready artwork for print, broadcast, and digital marketing campaigns, and releasing these materials to the media and for reproduction. Its clients are major U.S. and international consumer and B2B marketers. The company is focused on implementation and design, and is not involved with upstream strategic marketing and planning activities.
Responsibilities:
Creating or edit imagery for the best possible and consistent printed result, includes color correction, profiling, and image manipulation
Taking a leadership role within the team and with clients in advising and executing retouching, color correction, and color separation
Collaborating with the color management specialist in maintaining and constantly improving the companys color management processes and deliverables
Additionally, every team member is responsible for managing the day-to-day account requirements of ROB ROP advertising, commercial print, digital print, and OOH print for the entire life cycle of the process. This includes, account administration, desktop operations, proofing, assembly, and shipping
Responsibilities will shift and opportunities to grow will be available.
This client-facing position requires ambition, problem-solving, and a positive, can-do attitude
This position has a 3pm start time
Interactions
Internal: collaborating production throughout and amongst the print services team, reporting to department management, engaging with internal client: Production Coordinators
Creative Agencies: production departments, account team
Media Agencies: media planners and buyers
Essential Skills & Requirements
5-7 years of retouching and desktop experience
General understanding of production workflow and equipment requirements
Basic knowledge of printing process, specifically advertising workflow
Keen understanding of RGB and CMYK workflows
Keen understanding of color management
Strong organizational, communication, and administrative skills
Ability to prioritize work
Ability to establish and implement procedures
Capable of training others
Ability to quickly understand the company project management system and utilization of available Filemaker reports
Mastery of industry software, including but not limited to:
o Adobe CS Applications
o QuarkXpress
o Preflight software
o Microsoft Office
o Ftp, Fetch, Adsend, etc.
o Esko Backstage and Webcenter
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COVER LETTER
Scott McLane
640 w 139th street, apt 61
New York, NY 10031
646-216-9572
smclane@ymail.com
Retouching has been a longtime passion for me. My work has been published in such magazines as Maxiam, Smooth, GQ, US Weekly, Vogue, Vanity fair, Jane and Modern Bride. I have been in the field as a professional retoucher for the past 10 years. I started my retouching career in 2000 as a skin, beauty, product retoucher for Loreal and Revlon. Currently I am looking for a freelance retouching position where I can provide my expertise and experience. I have provided you with a link to my portfolio, please keep in mind that my portfolio does not include all the high-end work I have done for many companies, as I do respect there rights to there images and have not been able to acquire any images that would surely produce a higher end portfolio. With my overall background in the field, I truly believe I can be an asset to your business.
Please take the time to review my resume and portfolio. If you would like any additional information, please feel free to call me at 646-216-9572 or you can send me an email at smclane@ymail.com . I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Scott McLane
Resume
Scott McLane
640 w 139th street, apt 61
New York, NY 10031
646-216-9572
smclane@ymail.com
Retouching portfolio
http://www.scottmclane.com/retouch.html
OBJECTIVE
A position that offers a stimulating challenge as a Professional Retoucher. Where I will be able to use my technical as well as my creative skills to accomplish the task at hand.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006-2009 DreamForce Productions New York, NY
Digital Retoucher | Professional Photographer | Website Designer
Duties: Prepress digital retouching, Professional Digital Photography, Website Design, Sales and Marketing.
2007-2008 Mayo Studios New York, NY
Digital Color Retoucher – Freelance
Duties: Digital retouching – detail color correction, advanced manipulation, silos, clipping paths for silo.
2006-2006 Quad Graphics New York, NY
Digital Color Retoucher – Freelance
Duties: Prepress digital retouching – detail color correction, advanced manipulation, softproofing, silos with soft masks applied, clipping paths for silo, skin retouching, worked on covers for major magazines.
2003-2006 Rich Russo Advertising Photography Dover, NJ
Photographic Digital/Lighting Tech / Retoucher
Duties: Setup lights for studio and locations, Archived photoshoots, Maintained equipment (hardware and software), stylized shoots, worked with 2 1/4 digital back, retouching, and worked directly with art directors.
2002-2003 L.P. Thebaullt Parsippany, NJ
Digital Retoucher
Duties: Prepress digital retouching, scaling and mounting chromes to Drum Scanner, scanning negatives, Archiving Files, create proofs from Creo Spectrum proofers.
2000–2002 ColorLogic/DreamLogic Parsippany, NJ
Digital Retouching/Digital Photographer
Duties: Prepress digital retouching and in charge of digital photography department.
1998–Present Freelance New York, NY
Freelance Photographer/Assistant/Retoucher
Duties: Fashion, portraiture, fine art, digital imaging, Musicians, commercial product, interior, exterior.
EDUCATION
1996–1998 Antonelli Institute of Art and Photography Erdenhium, PA
Degree: Associates in Specialized Technology (A.S.T.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS/SKILLS
Antonelli Institute Graduate Award for Most Outstanding Portfolio, Class of 1998
Retouching- specializing in models skin, layers, masks, RGB & CMYK profiles , color correction, spot colors, clipping paths, composites, liquefying.
Photography – Cameras: 35mm (Nikon N90s), large format (Sinar brons), Canon 30D, Nikon D1, Fuji pro s2, Mega Vision 2 1/4 digital back. Lighting – Mono lights, speedotron brown and black line strobes, dyna-lite strobes, hotlights, light metering, file processing, CD/DVD burns, print, archiving.
Website Design – Flash websites, html websites.
Systems & Programs – Macintosh Mac OSX, Windows, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Bridge, Imageready 7.0, Indesign CS4, Illustrator CS4, Premiere 6.5, Aperture, Adobe lightroom, Macromedia Flash CS4 DreamWeaver CS4, Microsoft word, excel