Retouch or restore photographic negatives and prints to accentuate desirable features of subject, using pencils, watercolors, or airbrushes.
Paints negative with retouching medium, to ensure retouching pencil will mark surface of negative.
Shades negative or photograph with pencil to smooth facial contours, conceal blemishes, stray hairs, or wrinkles, and soften highlights.
Inks borders or lettering on illustration, using pen, brush, or drafting instruments.
Examines drawing, negative, or photographic print to determine coloring, shading, accenting, and changes required to retouch or restore.
Mixes ink or paint solutions, according to color specifications, color chart, and consistency desired.
Trims edges of print to enhance appearance, using scissors or paper cutter.
Cuts out masking template, using shears, and positions templates on picture to mask selected areas.
Wipes excess color from portrait to produce specified shade, using cotton swab.
Applies paint to retouch or enhance negative or photograph, using airbrush, pen, artist's brush, cotton swab, or gloved finger.
Rubs eraser or cloth over photograph to reduce gloss, remove debris, or prepare specified areas of illustration for highlighting.
Fine Arts -- Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
Visual Color Discrimination -- The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Arm-Hand Steadiness -- The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
Finger Dexterity -- The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
Near Vision -- The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Visualization -- The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Manual Dexterity -- The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
Wrist-Finger Speed -- The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
Problem Sensitivity -- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Deductive Reasoning -- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Handling and Moving Objects -- Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Getting Information -- Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Thinking Creatively -- Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material -- Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events -- Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.