Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators
ProductionAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators with an AI automation risk score of 11%. Analysis includes 27 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Working with Computers
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Getting Information
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
Required Abilities
- Near Vision
- Oral Comprehension
- Visual Color Discrimination
- Oral Expression
- Written Comprehension
Key Tasks
Retouch photographic negatives or original prints to correct defects.
Read work orders to determine required processes, techniques, materials, or equipment.
Maintain records, such as quantities or types of processing completed, materials used, or customer charges.
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.
Set or adjust machine controls, according to specifications, type of operation, or material requirements.
Review computer-processed digital images for quality.
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data