Hey there! I'm an LA native and I decided to be a retoucher about a year ago. A retoucher niched in beauty and skin segueing best into beauty and fashion editorial. If I could work on editorials all day, that's honestly the way I'd have it and it's the area of retouching that I prefer. I've spent the past year freelancing and learning the basics of business through trial and error and I've gotten good. Now I'd like to work at a retouch studio and freelance a bit on the side if I can. Working at a studio would be more stable.
This is a major city for this sort of thing and I'm lucky, but I've heard in some older threads that LA ain't quite like NYC as far as the availability and amount of retouch studios go.
Thank you so much. Any additional advice would be fantastic as well, thank you. I enjoy doing this so I'd like some reality to understand how I could properly make a living retouching in LA in particular. Thanks again.
This is a major city for this sort of thing and I'm lucky, but I've heard in some older threads that LA ain't quite like NYC as far as the availability and amount of retouch studios go.
- That was from a thread in 2008 and I was wondering if anyone working the field or has knowledge can recommend some studios?
- Also if you could lay out how much (generally speaking), you'd guess a person in an LA studio would be making a year? Going from Grunt (junior assistant), and working up to senior level.
Thank you so much. Any additional advice would be fantastic as well, thank you. I enjoy doing this so I'd like some reality to understand how I could properly make a living retouching in LA in particular. Thanks again.
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