I guess it all depends on the quality of work required. Some of the touch up can be done real quick with some tools, like erasing a bit of areola, or "whiting" an area (assuming by that, they do ask to simply put a white circle/square on the ko part), but yeah, toning down nipples or slimming down a model might require more work (though it also depends on several factors).
Having worked as a graphist myself in printing industry, this gives me flashback of one of my worst job where I was required to make adjustements for cards and expected to do nearly 250 a day. Thankfully, a good chunck of that was very minor stuff and in the end, only a bit over half actually require some "real" work, but yeah, you have do dedicate your whole day to that and learn to streamline with tools as much as you can, so you can do a job in just a few minutes. But yeah, sometimes, a work is so botched up to begin with you simply can't do it fast, or it'll come back to you later with a revenge.
The number of work and the deadline is still heavy, especially for a newcomer who they probably don't really know the level of skill, but at this point, it's obvious it's intended to be an absurdly demanding job.
WTF, you had to edit 250 images a day?! You poor wretched thing, I am so sorry. What sort of alterations were they? Outside of doing batch file work, where you basically set up the initial template then hit go, I don't see how that would even be remotely possible even with a pot full of coffee, a fist full of Adderall, and 4 hours of mandatory overtime every day.
That's less than 1 minute 50 seconds per image. I suppose it really comes down to the amount of editing work required, the file types being used, and how much of it can be automated, but if you are running on a bad setup with outdated poorly set up computers, which always seems to the case in places like these that value quantity above all else, then simply opening and saving your files can take more time than you were given to do each of your edits.
Back at my old job, I remember having to troubleshoot and fix a problem I was having with CS 5 taking over a minute to save each of the PNG files we were using. If you had a similarly poor work environment then that would be over half the time you had allotted for each of your adjustment jobs. ~shiver~
After months of minute-long save times and management calling in 2 different failed work orders to the outsourced IT people they used instead of an actual system administrator, I decided to try and figure out the problem myself. (Seriously we had a 100+ workstation network and no full-time system admin or tech department.) Anyway, to make a long story short it just required the removal of adobe drive which I had to have the outsourced Tech team come in for yet again because I didn't have the required permissions to remove it myself.
Anyway, back to my original point before I started on my crappy job flashback, which is that the sort of work she is being asked to do cannot be automated for the most part. These sorts of detailed photo manipulations which involve going in by hand and significantly altering the original high res RAWs of human models are not something you can bang out quickly without running into the uncanny valley particularly if she has never worked on this sort of subject matter before. Having like 11 minutes per photo is insane for a newbie. At my old wage slave job, about a third of my duties were editing the photos I had taken and I did about 50 a day, but those were very limited, fast, and easy touch-up jobs of pictures of items and they were photos I took myself so I could somewhat limit the need for corrections rather than having to correct the work of others like the MC is doing.
You know, after reading this manga, hearing about your 250 a day quota, and remembering my own horrible stint working with photo editing, I think I see a pattern with this kind of work...
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