Photographic Process Workers & Processing Machine Operators

Also called: Photo Lab Technician (Photographic Laboratory Technician), Photo Printer, Photo Specialist

Career Cluster: Manufacturing
What they do:
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.
On the job, you would:
  • Select digital images for printing, specify number of images to be printed, and direct to printer, using computer software.
  • Create prints according to customer specifications and laboratory protocols.
  • Produce color or black-and-white photographs, negatives, or slides, applying standard photographic reproduction techniques and procedures.
KNOWLEDGE

Engineering and Technology
  • computers and electronics
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
  • manufacture and distribution of products
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • customer service
SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
ABILITIES

Attention
  • pay attention to something without being distracted
Hand and Finger Use
  • keep your arm or hand steady
  • hold or move items with your hands
Ideas and Logic
  • order or arrange things
Verbal
  • listen and understand what people say
  • communicate by speaking
PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Self Control
  • Cooperation
  • Integrity
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Data base user interface and query software
  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • MySQL
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe Illustrator
EDUCATION


high school diploma/GED usually needed SEARCH ALL PROGRAMS & MAJORS SEARCH COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are less likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $65,480.00
Median: $35,620.00
Low: $29,390.00
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