David Craig
David Craig
Seattle, WA  ·  PT, works EST  ·  Open to full-time

Twenty years in the suite. Still cutting.

I started as a retouch apprentice in 2006 and never stopped working on images. Ten years of high-end retouching at Imagine Color, six years running post-production video and photo at Tommy Bahama, and since 2022, multimedia under my own name through Thinking DC Productions.

The through-line is the same in every room: find the real problem, build the process, then do the work. I'm particular about the frame and equally particular about how it gets out the door.

Now I'm looking to bring that to one team full-time.

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Experience

Thinking DC Productions
2022 — now
Owner · Video Editor & Motion Designer
Motion design and video for Remitly, Tommy Bahama, PFL, ISMMA, and Gaisma Theatre Group. Concept-to-delivery ownership: Figma assets into After Effects, Frame.io review rounds, and full multi-format delivery across lengths, ratios, and markets.
Seattle, WA
Tommy Bahama
2016 — 2022
Manager, Multimedia Post-Production
Led post for video and photo across paid media, organic social, and print. Managed the retouch team and proof approvals through press, built the workflows and DAM behind the brand's move to digital-first, and hired its first in-house video editor.
Promoted from Photography Retoucher
Imagine Color
2006 — 2016
Senior Photo Retoucher
High-volume retouching and color work for national retail — RGB, LAB, and CMYK, restoration, and print pre-flight. Built Photoshop action sets adopted company-wide. From 2010, on set with photographers and art directors advising for print.
Nordstrom · Amazon · Tide
Freelance
2004 — 2006
Video Editor & Multimedia Producer
Editing and production across project types out of school.
Seattle, WA

Also builds the tools

Self-taught · shipped · in use

When the process is the problem, I build the fix — a script in After Effects, a tracker for the retouch queue, or a small app for whatever the day needs.

ShoreIntel — screen
ShoreIntel
WA coast conditions app. Pulls NOAA tides, weather, and state regulations, scores every upcoming day, and surfaces the single best one — so a trip starts with one number instead of an evening of research.
Open the live build ↗
Apps for the occasion — screen
Apps for the occasion
For each shoot, trip, or event I ship a small web app that holds the whole day on one link anyone can open on their phone. No login, no app store — just the right information in one place.
See one ↗
The Alpha Planner — screen
The Alpha Planner
A personal triage inbox that reads calendar, tasks, email, and texts, then surfaces what actually needs a decision with an accept or decline. Built to run my own week.
Personal tool · not public
Clients
Remitly · Tommy Bahama
Nordstrom · Amazon · Tide
PFL · ISMMA · ACT Theatre
Wing Luke Museum
Gaisma Theatre Group
Suite
Premiere Pro · After Effects
Photoshop · Lightroom
Capture One · DaVinci Resolve
Figma · Overlord · Frame.io
Adobe Experience Manager
Education
Art Institute of Seattle
AA, Animation Art and Design · 2004

Professional retouching
Certification · 2007
Contact
david [at] thinkingdc.com
Seattle, WA
linkedin.com/in/thinkingdc
Let's talk about the role.
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