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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Photo Lab Technicians

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Perform work involved in developing and processing photographic images from film or digital media. May perform precision tasks such as editing photographic negatives and prints.

Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators · O*NET 51-9151.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

18 of 25tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

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27 matched to the tools photographic process workers and processing machine operators use. Showing 24.

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The tools this job actually uses

25 documented for this occupation. Showing 25, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Adobe Creative Cloud softwarehot
  • Adobe Illustratorhot
  • Adobe InDesignhot
  • Adobe Photoshophot
  • Amazon Web Services AWS softwarehot
  • Cascading style sheets CSShot
  • Dockerhot
  • Githot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • MongoDBhot
  • MySQLhot
  • SAP softwarehot
  • Structured query language SQLhot
  • TypeScripthot
  • Camera Bits Photo Mechanic
  • ExpressDigital Labtricity
  • HeliconSoft Helicon Focus
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Phase One Capture One
  • RESTful API

What this job involves

28 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Select digital images for printing, specify number of images to be printed, and direct to printer, using computer software.
  2. Create prints according to customer specifications and laboratory protocols.
  3. Produce color or black-and-white photographs, negatives, or slides, applying standard photographic reproduction techniques and procedures.
  4. Set or adjust machine controls, according to specifications, type of operation, or material requirements.
  5. Review computer-processed digital images for quality.
  6. Operate scanners or related computer equipment to digitize negatives, photographic prints, or other images.
  7. Fill tanks of processing machines with solutions such as developer, dyes, stop-baths, fixers, bleaches, or washes.
  8. Measure and mix chemicals to prepare solutions for processing, according to formulas.
  9. Load digital images onto computers directly from cameras or from storage devices, such as flash memory cards or universal serial bus (USB) devices.
  10. Operate special equipment to perform tasks such as transferring film to videotape or producing photographic enlargements.
  11. Examine developed prints for defects, such as broken lines, spots, or blurs.
  12. Read work orders to determine required processes, techniques, materials, or equipment.
  13. Immerse film, negatives, paper, or prints in developing solutions, fixing solutions, and water to complete photographic development processes.
  14. Load circuit boards, racks or rolls of film, negatives, or printing paper into processing or printing machines.
  15. Insert processed negatives and prints into envelopes for delivery to customers.
  16. Examine quality of film fades or dissolves for potential color corrections, using color analyzers.
  17. Reprint originals for enlargement or in sections to be pieced together.
  18. Clean or maintain photoprocessing or darkroom equipment, using ultrasonic equipment or cleaning and rinsing solutions.
  19. Thread filmstrips through densitometers or sensitometers and expose film to light to determine density of film, necessary color corrections, or light sensitivity.
  20. Monitor equipment operation to detect malfunctions.
  21. Examine drawings, negatives, or photographic prints to determine coloring, shading, accenting, or other changes required for retouching or restoration.
  22. Place sensitized paper in frames of projection printers, photostats, or other reproduction machines.
  23. Upload digital images onto Web sites for customers.
  24. Maintain records, such as quantities or types of processing completed, materials used, or customer charges.