A task performed by Photographers
Enhance, retouch, and resize photographs and negatives, using airbrushing and other techniques.
Technically, much of it, experts rate AI capability 5/5, but workers don't want it automated (desire 2.7/5). It's an Automation Red Light: proceed with care.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 10 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 2 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers feel the way they do
- Frees up time for higher-value work40%
- It's repetitive30%
- It's stressful20%
- Reduces human error20%
- Helps handle larger scale20%
- It's difficult10%
How to automate this
Doable with technology, but keep a person clearly in charge.
Where to start
Remove the repetitive parts first.
- 1Write down the steps you take to enhance, retouch, and resize photographs and negatives, using airbrushing and other techniques and template anything you do the same way each time.
- 2Connect your tools with a no-code automation (Zapier, Make, Power Automate).
- 3Use AI for the first draft, then review.
Tools that can help
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This is 1 of 7 tasks studied for Photographers, where workers want 43% of tasks automated.
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