Lead Retoucher
Somewhere
Retoucher (Remote) — 4–6+ Years Experience
Owns the aesthetic and quality bar across all product, lifestyle, CGI-to-photo, and campaign assets.
What You’ll Do
* Retouch product and lifestyle photography with expert precision—color, shadows, texture, cleanup, perspective, dimensionality.
* Maintain color accuracy across rug collections, textures, fibers, and pattern nuance.
* Create consistent lighting and surface qualities across multi-channel imagery (e-commerce, retail, social, catalog, packaging).
* Refine CGI outputs to match real-world lighting, texture detail, and premium brand standards.
* Build scalable retouch presets, workflows, and QA systems to improve output consistency.
* Manage delivery timelines, file naming, asset organization, and export specs.
How You’ll Measure Success
* High visual consistency across all imagery (studio, lifestyle, CGI hybrids).
* Reduction in revision cycles through clear guidelines and precision execution.
* Improved e-commerce conversion and product clarity due to clean, accurate imagery.
* Faster turnaround times through streamlined presets and processes.
What You’re Great At
* 4–6+ years of retouching experience in home décor, fashion, beauty, or luxury consumer categories.
* Expertise in Photoshop + color grading, masking, texture preservation, cleanup, and compositing.
* Comfortable integrating AI into daily creative workflows to accelerate ideation, elevate craft, and improve production efficiency (Chatgpt, Nano Banana, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, etc.)
* Strong understanding of textiles, fabric rendering, detail accuracy, and pattern alignment.
* Ability to match across diverse sources: studio photography, lifestyle shoots, CGI outputs.
* Obsessed with detail and maintaining visual consistency.