Calling all Canuck photo retouchers!

Roy wrote:

Are all Canadians fat and dumb like Doohan (R.I.P.) and Shatner? FM…

No we are not.

I don’t think your comments are appropriate for this group. It was a reasonable question. If someone wishes to provide a proper answer to the question fine. If not, ignore the question.

People who live in glass hoses should not throw rocks.
"Flipper Mike" wrote in message

Roy wrote:

Are all Canadians fat and dumb like Doohan (R.I.P.) and Shatner? FM…

I can not comment on the prices commanded, but I will comment an the group being hijacked by useless post that are nothing to do with Photoshop in any way. Some times I wish this group was moderated as it is a pain in the backside going through all the dross that these people post.

If it is not links to rubbish images or sound files it is posts slagging off other people.
I just with these people (you know who you are) would go some where else to do their postings.

NIK

"Paul" wrote in message

No we are not.

I don’t think your comments are appropriate for this group. It was a reasonable question. If someone wishes to provide a proper answer to the question fine. If not, ignore the question.

People who live in glass hoses should not throw rocks.
"Flipper Mike" wrote in message

Roy wrote:

Are all Canadians fat and dumb like Doohan (R.I.P.) and Shatner? FM…

NIK wrote:

I can not comment on the prices commanded, but I will comment an the group being hijacked by useless post that are nothing to do with Photoshop in any way. Some times I wish this group was moderated as it is a pain in the backside going through all the dross that these people post.
If it is not links to rubbish images or sound files it is posts slagging off other people.
I just with these people (you know who you are) would go some where else to do their postings.

:-\ FM…

NIK

"Paul" wrote in message

No we are not.

:-\ FM…

I don’t think your comments are appropriate for this group. It was a reasonable question. If someone wishes to provide a proper answer to the question fine. If not, ignore the question.

People who live in glass hoses should not throw rocks.
"Flipper Mike" wrote in message

Roy wrote:

Are all Canadians fat and dumb like Doohan (R.I.P.) and Shatner? FM…

:-\ FM…

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"Roy" wrote:

A local photo studio is about to start throwing some work my way. 99% of it is photo retouching, cropping, healing, curves, levels, colour balancing etc etc etc. Most of the images are "glam" shots but some are wedding and graduations shots.
My question is…what is the going rate for this kind of work in Canada? My research seems to point at the $40-$45/hr range. Does this seem accurate?

I haven’t done any such work for photo studios, but that rate seems rather low for similar functions in the context of pre-press. The trade shop where I work (in Edmonton, AB) charges $65/hr. for artwork & photo-retouching, and I believe we’re one of the cheaper places around. Of course a free-lancer is somewhat different from a service bureau, but I would have expected a figure some 10-20% higher. OTOH if we’re talking about a contract involving a steady dozen hours or more per week I’d expect the pay to be somewhere in between the trade rates and an employee’s wage of $15-25/hr.

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Odysseus

A local photo studio is about to start throwing some work my way. 99% of it
is photo retouching, cropping, healing, curves, levels, colour balancing etc
etc etc. Most of the images are "glam" shots but some are wedding and graduations shots.
My question is…what is the going rate for this kind of work in Canada? My
research seems to point at the $40-$45/hr range. Does this seem accurate?

I haven’t done any such work for photo studios, but that rate seems rather low for similar functions in the context of pre-press. The trade shop where I work (in Edmonton, AB) charges $65/hr. for artwork & photo-retouching, and I believe we’re one of the cheaper places around. Of course a free-lancer is somewhat different from a service bureau, but I would have expected a figure some 10-20% higher. OTOH if we’re talking about a contract involving a steady dozen hours or more per week I’d expect the pay to be somewhere in between the trade rates and an employee’s wage of $15-25/hr.

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Odysseus

Thanks for the response. I’m working in Cold Lake Alberta not too far from Edmonton. This kind of info can help me nail down a rate.

Thanks

Roy

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way. Some times I wish this group was moderated as it is a pain in the backside going through all the dross that these people post.

I sympathize, but keep two things in mind.

"Feeding the trolls" is an apt phrase. These guys love righteous comments directed against them, and if they should find your post, they will treat it as an opportunity to reply, in hopes of keeping you, or others who are drawn into the drama, going as long as possible. They’re like the Star Trek creatures who feed on negative thoughts.

Second, what dross? It’s important to use the block sender and ignore feature of your news reader. If it does not support both of these, switch to a different program,. I consider these features as necessary as anti-virus software.

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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

Odysseus wrote:

about a contract involving a steady dozen hours or more per week I’d expect the pay to be somewhere in between the trade rates and an employee’s wage of $15-25/hr.

Odysseus,

Professional image retouching for prepress purposes is done on contractual basis and not on hourly basis. That means that you have to arrive at a certain result regardless of hours painstaking. The cost of image retouching for prepress is calculated according to the following criteria:

1- Simple color and focus correction
2- Lighting correction
3- Coloring of B&W photo
4- Aging photo
5- Portrait beautification and look change
5-a Hair manipulation for certain purposes
5-b Eyes manipulation
5-c Lips manipulation
6- Jewelery manipulation
6-a Golden articles
6-b Diamond articles
7- Science fiction and other artificially-composed images, such as adjustment of fractals’ colors.
..
..
etc.

The method upon which processing is based may differ according to the number of colors contained in the image. There are professionals who may do retouching in no time, and may arrive at stunning results compared to rookies who may spend ages on retouching a photo.

Mohamed Al-Dabbagh
Senior Graphic Designer

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"Mohamed Al-Dabbagh" wrote:

Odysseus wrote:

about a contract involving a steady dozen hours or more per week I’d expect the pay to be somewhere in between the trade rates and an employee’s wage of $15-25/hr.

Professional image retouching for prepress purposes is done on contractual basis and not on hourly basis. That means that you have to arrive at a certain result regardless of hours painstaking. […]

I have no reason to doubt that the terms you describe reflect typical practices, but that’s not how it goes in the particular market segment where I work. If we’ve given a quotation before beginning a job we’ll usually stick to it, even if the work turns out to be more complex or time-consuming than we’d expected, but in general hourly rates are the basis for all our labour billing.

The only exception is our corporate-identity design service, which includes proofs of several logo design concepts, such ‘tweaking’ as the client may request, and, on approval, the prepress production for a stationery package (letterhead, envelopes, & business cards), all under a flat fee. This rarely (if ever) involves photographic images.

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Odysseus