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| Highest | $4,400 / mo · Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Experience | 0–1 yrs |
| Degree | Not required |
| First paycheck | 4-year bachelor + portfolio |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $4,400max |
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $4,000 |
| NorwayIELTS 6.0–6.5 · NOK 130–260k | $3,450 |
| DenmarkIELTS 6.5 · DKK 45–135k | $2,950 |
| Hong KongIELTS 6.0–6.5 · HK–200k | $2,900 |
| SingaporeIELTS 6.5 · SGD 18–35k | $2,900 |
What does the day look like?
Most of your day sits in Photoshop and Capture One: skin and blemish cleanup, colour correction, background cleanup, clipping paths, compositing, and matching images to samples or style guides. Roughly 50–70% of the time is hands-on pixel work; 20–30% goes to naming files, QA, and briefs or revisions; 10–20% to meetings and workflow tweaks. Employers also name Adobe Bridge, Lightroom, Camera Raw, and sometimes Canto, Photo Mechanic, or Frame.io for review.
Studio jobs usually run Monday–Friday on a normal office calendar — Fashion Nova, for example, lists onsite work in Beverly Hills. Night shifts and on-call rotas are uncommon unless you are tied to a live photo studio schedule. The part that looks glamorous is polishing individual images; the rest is batch processing, deadlines, and keeping assets organised. Remote freelance work is async but still deadline-driven.
Where does this lead?
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