Photo and Visual Editors

Overview

micro1 is hiring 50 remote contractors for photo and visual editing work. This role is fully remote and open worldwide. The work is best suited to people with professional experience selecting, editing, or retouching images for publication, clients, or brands.

You will review images, choose the strongest option for a given purpose, correct technical issues, and explain your decisions in writing. The role combines image judgment, editing quality control, and brief-based retouching work.

Scope of Work

• Review sets of images and select the best image for a specific purpose.
• Evaluate technical quality, including exposure, focus, color, noise, and cropping.
• Identify images that have been altered in ways that change what they show.
• Check whether captions and descriptions accurately match the image content.
• Write a short explanation for each decision so a reviewer can follow your reasoning.
• Correct or retouch images according to the brief.

Requirements

• Professional experience as a photo editor, picture editor, visual editor, retoucher, or photo producer.
• Daily use of professional tools such as Lightroom, Photoshop, or Capture One.
• Experience delivering images for a real audience such as print, web, social, broadcast, or brand work.
• Ability to explain why one image works better than another.
• Clear written English.

Selection Process

• Apply with your resume and a short profile.
• Complete an editing interview focused on your experience with image selection and editing.
• Your experience will be reviewed against the project requirements.
• If selected, you will receive the guidelines and complete an initial task before continuing.