Photo and Visual Editors

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 145,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is seeking Photo and Visual Editors for contract remote work. You will review and select the strongest images, correct technical issues in Lightroom or Photoshop, and explain your decisions in writing.

Candidates should have professional editing experience for publication, daily use of Lightroom and Photoshop, and clear written English. Start with resume and short profile; onboarding includes an initial task and iterative reviews.

Qualifications

• Professional experience selecting, editing or retouching images for publication, clients or brands.
• Strong command of image quality, composition and consistency for different formats.
• Ability to explain decisions in writing and meet project briefs.

Responsibilities

• Review images, choose the best ones, correct technical problems and explain your decisions in writing.
• Review and edit images and judge their quality, accuracy and fit for a purpose.
• Look at sets of images and pick the strongest one for a given purpose.
• Judge exposure, focus, color, noise and cropping for each image.
• Check captions and descriptions match what the image shows, and document edits.

Skills

Photo editing

Picture editing

Retoucher

Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop

Tools

Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

Pay: $50 - $105/hour

Required Skills

• Photo Edition
• Picture Edition
• Retoucher
• Lightroom
• Adobe Photoshop

About micro1

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title

Photo and Visual Editors

Role Type

Contractor

Location

Remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: $55 - $100 per hour

Location: Fully Remote, Worldwide

You'll need

Professional experience selecting, editing or retouching images for publication, clients or brands

Your tasks

Review images, choose the best ones, correct technical problems and explain your decisions in writing

You'll review and edit images and judge their quality, accuracy and fit for a purpose. This is a good fit if you work as a photo editor, picture editor, visual editor or retoucher and make decisions about which images to use and how to correct them.

Scope of Work

• Look at sets of images and pick the strongest one for a given purpose.
• Judge technical quality: exposure, focus, color, noise and cropping.
• Mark images that were altered in a way that changes what they show.
• Check that captions and descriptions match what the image actually shows.
• Write a short explanation for each decision so a reviewer can follow your reasoning.
• Correct or retouch images following a brief.

What we’re looking for

• Professional work as a photo editor, picture editor, visual editor, retoucher or photo producer.
• Daily use of professional tools such as Lightroom, Photoshop or Capture One.
• Experience delivering images to a real audience: print, web, social, broadcast or brand work.
• Comfort explaining why one image works and another doesn’t.
• Clear written English.

How the selection process works

• with your resume and a short profile.
• Complete the editing interview.
• It is a short conversation about your experience with image selection and editing. You don't need to prepare, look at anything or write anything. Finishing it is what moves your application forward.
• Review.
• We check your experience against what the project needs.
• Onboarding and first task.
• If selected, you get the guidelines and start with an initial task, which is reviewed before you continue.
• Email