Photo and Visual Editors

Photo and Visual Editors - Remote

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote — Worldwide
Employment Type: Contract
Compensation: $96,000–$201,600 per year (annualized equivalent)
Hourly Rate: $50–$105 per hour

Annualized compensation is an illustrative equivalent based on 40 hours/week × 48 weeks/year. Actual earnings depend on hours worked, project availability, and approved work.

About the Role

We are seeking experienced photo and visual editors to evaluate, select, edit, and retouch images for specific purposes. You will assess image quality, accuracy, and suitability, identify technical issues or misleading alterations, and explain your decisions in writing.

This opportunity is suited to professionals who have selected and edited images for publication, clients, brands, or other real-world audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Review image sets and select the strongest images for a defined purpose.

• Assess technical quality, including exposure, focus, color, noise, and cropping.

• Identify images altered in ways that change or misrepresent what they show.

• Verify that captions and descriptions accurately reflect image content.

• Provide concise written explanations supporting image-selection and editing decisions.

• Correct or retouch images in accordance with the project brief.

Required Qualifications

• Professional experience as a photo editor, picture editor, visual editor, retoucher, or photo producer.

• Regular use of professional image-editing tools such as Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, or Capture One.

• Experience delivering images for print, web, social media, broadcast, or brand-related work.

• Ability to explain why an image is suitable or unsuitable for a particular purpose.

• Clear written English.

Core Skills

• Photo and picture editing

• Image selection and evaluation

• Photo retouching

• Adobe Lightroom

• Adobe Photoshop

• Capture One

• Technical image-quality assessment

• Visual accuracy and caption review

• Written evaluation and reasoning

Selection Process

1. Application: Submit your resume and a short professional profile.

2. Editing Interview: Participate in a short conversation about your experience with image selection and editing. No preparation, review, or written task is required. Completing the interview moves your application forward.

3. Experience Review: Your background is assessed against the project’s requirements.

4. Onboarding and Initial Task: If selected, you will receive guidelines and complete an initial task. The task is reviewed before you continue.