Daniel Shek Email & Phone Number

• Review photographer’s photos to ensure quality for both color accuracy, resolution, cropping standards and Styling requirements for Barney's website.
• Retouch high volumes of e-commerce and creative projects, personally responsible for retouching 80-100 images daily.
• Ensure styling requirement with the current trend from the art director is being followed.
• Retouch high volumes of e-commerce and creative projects with a fast turnaround.
• Suggest workflow and create actions that improve volumes in workflows.
• Maintain a database of assets on cloud base server BOX.

1 New York Plaza

• Retouch products, on figures apparel and models. Match products color according to the company's specifications. Help tracking of process and suggest ideas to improve the work process and better time management.
• Maintain digital asset file/structure organization and tracked image status.
• Update InDesign layouts for color consistency and brand requirements.
• Worked alongside Art Directors, Designers, Photographers, and web departments.
• Designed and implemented new workflows to increase proficiency and volume output.
• Time effective, able to manage simultaneous workflows and increased bandwidth.

1290 Avenue OF America

• Performed photo retouching, color correction, silhouetting, compositing and scanning of the editorial images for Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal and Us Weekly magazines and all promotional advertisements (i.e. Banana.
• Performed complex flesh tone and cosmetic correction with explicit attention to detail
• Fulfilled image composition and alterations
• Accomplished high volume image production with minimal revisions
• Formulated Photoshop color correction action to compensate color balance and gray balance
• Generated profiles using Camera Raw and Lightroom to optimize raw digital files

1290 Avenue OF America

• Transmitted final PDF page files to remote printing facilities and troubleshoot directly with printers
• Updated layouts using ART Pro and approved and signed contract proofs
• Managed and archived digital library of corrected images for all magazines
• Created fine color separations from continuous tone art on Creo Eversmart flatbed scanner

Greater New York City Area

• Privately Held; 100 employees; Printing industry
• Performed, photo retouching, compositing, for advertising and commercial accounts.
• Extreme attention to detail given to complex flesh tone corrections.
• Expertly fulfilled extremely complex image composition requirements.

Long Island City

• 1996 – 1998 (2 Years)
• Operating Topaz unit with linocolor 4.2
• Operating Hell 3900 unit