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The great outdoors

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Zoos and animal sanctuaries

All kinds of dancing.

Owner, Founder, and Retouching Manager

Creative professional with experience in photography, photo-retouching, visual display and merchandising, exhibit and set design, and art space management.

Designed and created website for a la carte retouching services - seeing that there was a need for affordable and easy retouching services for all kinds of people and photographs.  In addition to doing some of the retouching myself, I also manage the workflow of other retouchers that work for me.  Extensive experience in almost every problem at this point!  Color correction, adding and removing objects/people, photo composites, background swaps, lighting changes, beauty retouching, body shaping, etc.

Responsibilities include producing and editing web content including product photography and written copy for E-Commerce site. Also prep and add new brands and products to website, classifying products under filters and creating cross-selling links. Photograph and retouch or simply format product images for web use. Also responsible for social media focusing on Pinterest.
Retail responsibilities include working at Scent Bar two days a week, maintaining an encyclopedic knowledge of all products we carry, and using that knowledge base to maintain and properly classify our products on the web.

Web Content & Photo Editor / Retail Associate

Photo retoucher for portrait/headshot studio.  Responsible for retouching a large volume of images quickly and with an organized workflow.  Prepped and formatted images for printing and packaging.

Photo Retoucher

Executed all window displays for Banana Republic Flagship store as part of a two-person team. Followed and built upon specific concepts and moods for each season. Produced creative in-store displays in addition to windows.

Visual Production

Designed and executed a custom window display for a private retail client.

Freelance Window Designer

Seamstress

Taught dance lessons and tracked progress of students.  Taught both private and group classes in foxtrot, rumba, swing, waltz, and tango.

Ballroom Dance Instructor

Managed the gallery space for the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning for Cornell University.  This included both student and outside exhibitions.  Responsible for all communication with exhibitors, gallery maintenance, exhibit install and de-install.

Manager, Hartell Gallery

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Laura Johnson: Owner, Founder, and Retouching Manager in Los Angeles, CA

Laura Johnson

The Real Retouch

Luckyscent Inc

Cassiday Studios

Banana Republic

Evolve Modern Hairdressing

Pittsburgh Public Theater

Arthur Murray Dance Studios

Shakespeare & Company

Cornell University

Chaparral High School

Cornell University