Gary Ward Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, California, United States

Irvine, California, United States

Aguanga, Ca

I was brought in to manage and deliver all of the retouching and color correction of in-house produced photography. Additionally, I’m helping to integrate improved communication between photography, QC(retouching), Producers, Project management, vendors, and our stakeholders ongoing needs.Stay tuned!

Orange County, California, United States

Brought in by business partners to create specialized high-end photo-realistic digital compositions. Produced high quality pre-media images for various uses. In seeing that they were missing a vital tool for production management, I developed a live digital job tracking system to track over all job status, image retouching revision stays, proofing status, as well as hours used per image, to track costs.

Rancho Dominguez Hills, Ca

Hired to create and manage an OEM Pre Media Department to support the OEM Photography Team.Oversaw all retouching and color correcting of images for global distribution for OEM automotive brands. Produced high quality advertising and pre-media photography for OEM Automotive Manufacturers.Consulted with CG team to help produce higher quality integration of compositions using CG images.Managed pool of freelance retouchers to be able to respond to varying workloads.

Huntington Beach, California, United States

Instrumental in establishing an in-house Premedia Department to accompany the newly established inhouse Photography Studio. Working closely with studio to produce high quality advertising and catalog production photography. Retouching and color correcting images for global distribution, WEB, eMedia, POP, display/ booth/window graphics for all of the companies multiple brands. Working closely with the Creative Directors, designed ad/poster/buswraps/web.

Irvine, California, United States

Helped lead a newly developed Color Department, problem solving and creating a workflow that integrated with the assembly. As Color Department Manager, I was responsible for working closely with the sales team and customers to produce the highest quality images for their various needs. Additionally, I collaborated with the in-house photography studio, creating a seamless workflow to get the photos to the Color Dept.