Katie Anderson : Senior Photo Retoucher and Brand Lead

Experience

Straub Collaborative – Senior Photo Retoucher / Brand Lead, 2023 – Present

  • Responsible for QC/QA of final images, deliverable creation, and delivery to client DAM 
  • Managed client request tickets and delegation of work for deadlines
  • Created and maintained brand standardization guides for Chicos, White House Black Market, and Soma imagery for both full-time and freelance retouchers
  • Retouching contributor to RFP proposals for client test projects which resulted in client acquisition and retention
  • East Coast technical point of contact for server and DAM issues, organization and cleanup
  • Adapted brand guides for overseas retouchers
  • Cross trained on project and program clients such as Bombas, Orvis, Titleist, Under Armour, Kleinfeld Bridal, and Canada Goose
  • Ensured consistent and accurate color by matching images to samples and RGB values

Senior Resident Assistant, 2019 – 2020

  • Supervised and assisted 4 resident assistants with overseeing 4 college dorms
  • Created posters and social media posts for programs
  • Organized and consolidated important training documents for resident assistants

Freelance Photo Retoucher, 2021 – Present

  • Worked with photographers on editorial, street, and still life shoots
  • Retouched images according to varying brand guides for edits and sizing
  • Composited insert shots into mannequin images
  • Changed background imagery and color while ensuring consistency

YNAP Corporation (Net-a-Porter & Mr Porter) – Senior Photo Retoucher, 2017 – 2019

  • Edited and matched images to samples for clothing, accessories, fine jewelry and watches, and beauty
  • Responsible for QC/QA of final images and deliverable creation
  • Lead 1-1 training with Junior team members and created training materials
  • Created standards and approved imagery as Team Lead for accessory images
  • Managed the completion of weekly lists of images that required transfer from several servers, renaming, and editing / resizing to match various brand standards
  • Retouched and composited files together for editorial images to use on website banners and blog photos

Program Skills

Photoshop 
InDesign
Bridge 
Media Shuttle / Signiant        

Capture One
Review Studio
JIRA               

Microsoft Excel
Adobe Lightroom
Synology Suite                      

ProWorkflow
WebDAM
Shotflow

Education

MFA in Game Development: Concept Art, 2018 – 2021

  Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

BFA in Visual Communication: Illustration / Animation, 2011 – 2015

  Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY