Senior Image Retoucher
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- Senior Image Retoucher
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Overview
The Senior Image Retoucher is responsible for leading the post-production and retouching function by delivering high-quality imagery for e-commerce and social media platforms. This role combines hands-on image retouching with leadership responsibilities, ensuring that all visual assets meet brand standards, quality expectations, and production deadlines while promoting continuous improvement in studio workflows.
Requirements
- Relevant Tertiary Qualification
Responsibilities
- Lead the retouching and finishing of high-volume e-commerce product and on-model imagery.
- Perform advanced retouching, including skin retouching while maintaining natural skin texture.
- Execute colour correction, clipping paths, compositing, image clean-up, cropping, resizing, and final image preparation.
- Ensure all imagery is colour accurate, commercially appealing, and aligned with brand standards.
- Optimise images for web, marketplace platforms, and other digital channels.
- Maintain consistency across all published imagery through established quality control procedures.
- Oversee the quality assurance process for all retouched images prior to publication.
- Ensure adherence to published quality control measures and sign-off procedures.
- Build composites and execute creative image manipulation where required.
- Support creative concepts through advanced image editing and finishing techniques.
- Maintain exceptional standards for composition, colour, exposure, and image consistency.
- Manage large-volume retouching workflows while maintaining quality and turnaround times.
- Adhere to file management, server structures, naming conventions, version control, and archive procedures.
- Record production output accurately within job and time management systems.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiencies through automation, AI tools, and process improvements.
- Assist in maintaining image libraries and digital asset management systems.
- Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance, and technical support to the Image Retouching team.
- Mentor junior retouchers and provide coaching on best practices and quality standards.
- Ensure consistent adherence to brand guidelines, studio processes, and production timelines.
- Support onboarding and training of new team members where required.
- Collaborate with the Photography Lead, Stylists, Production Manager, and Studio teams to ensure seamless production workflows.
- Participate in regular studio meetings, creative reviews, and workflow planning sessions.
- Build strong working relationships with photographers, stylists, brands, suppliers, and production teams.
- Contribute to a positive, collaborative, and solution-focused studio culture.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across the studio and post-production teams.
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