As a global marketing experience company, Quad’s goal is to help our clients win every day. We use our data-driven integrated marketing and manufacturing platform to streamline solutions for our clients, reduce friction and enhance their marketing spend effectiveness. We’ve built a rich legacy by believing in our people, allowing them to act like owners and to take charge of their own success. Whether an operator, sales rep, a graphic artist or a clinician, we’re all driven to perform at our best— for ourselves and our clients. At our core, we’re a company that believes we can always create a better way.

The PreMedia Color Analyst is the color expert for both internal and external clients.  The PreMedia Color Analyst will use their experience in high end color retouching, complex masking, extensive cloning, and composition to exceed client expectations and interpret color expectations within a fast passed environment.

Responsibilities:

• Work onsite at client facility.
• Photo capture of sample swatches from client photo studio.
• Photoshop color matching to samples.
• Updating client DAM with color reference images & metadata.
• Coordinate sample swatch priority needs for Premedia work.
• Measure and spec out RGB and CMYK values for customer swatches or product matching. 
• Maintain accurate lighting and monitor calibration conditions for optimum viewing. 
• Ability to do image corrections in RGB and CMYK color space.
• General knowledge of profiles, color space, and conversions.
• Showing color proofs or softproofs of images or pages to Clients.
• Evaluating color and content according to clients specifications and expectations.
• Giving specific color direction by marking up color proofs or softproofs so the retouching team can execute corrections to the files to meet client expectations. 
• General knowledge of the workflows and procedures for the assigned area. 
• Understanding of Mac environment, basic photography equipment and Photoshop to execute clients corrections.
• Read and follow internal markup and client instructions. 
• Convert digital images from RGB to CMYK. 
• Perform specific color correction as needed, determined by evaluation of provided copy and/or softproof evaluation.
• Provide feedback to other color Mac operators. 
• Responsible for tracking or moving job components through production using Quad tools.  

Qualifications:
Appropriate education and/or experience may be substituted on an equivalent basis

• Some college course work preferred.
• 5-10 yearsof experience as a Color Analyst/Operator or similar.  
• Intermediate proficiency using the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, and Acrobat on the MAC Platform is also required. 
• Must be available 24x7 for varying client needs. 
• Should possess good knowledge of color theory, experience with camera raw processing and color management.  

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