Retoucher Job Description
Retoucher
provides detailed retouching, color correction, and delivery of image files within timelines communicated by Photographers, Content team, and Producers.
Retoucher Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective retoucher job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included retoucher job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Must be proficient in capture one and Photoshop
Continue to hone retouching skills and keep up latest techniques in Photoshop and Product Retouching
Retouch and color correct high resolution images in Photoshop
Retouch, color correct, crop, and upload product and model photography
Ensure color consistency across all images per product
Name and maintain digital asset organization
Receive creative direction from stylists, photographers, and senior retouchers and make corrections when necessary
Retouch product photography images to a high standard
Ensure colour consistency between image and physical product
Name and maintain digital asset file/structure organisation and upload images to web servers
Retoucher Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Retoucher
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the retoucher job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Photography, Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Graduate, Design, Education, Fashion, Graphic Arts, Communication, Associates
Skills for Retoucher
Desired skills for retoucher include:
Photoshop
Paths
Color theory
Actions
Adobe Photoshop
Capture One
Masks
Color correction tools
Batch processing
Bridge
Desired experience for retoucher includes:
Proactive, motivated, dedicated, and able to take initiativeb
Crop images and maintain file size specification guidelines
Be pro-active and able to show initiative/ideas to constantly improve the service of the studio team
Carry out ad hoc duties within art department/editorial when required
Portfolio and Fine Art printing
File Archiving
Retoucher Examples
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Retoucher Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a retoucher. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for retoucher
- Digital File Delivery
- Film Scanning
- Copyright Submissions
- Syndication Submissions
- Quality Assurance of live site
- Apply general/local corrections to adjust contrast, exposures
- Retouch imagery to the required company standards
- Colour correct and ensure colour consistency of product imagery
- Edit garment videos to required company standards
- Perform quality checks on all images and videos produced
Qualifications for retoucher
- 1-2 years of photo retouching experience
- Visual Arts related degree and/or previous experience in a studio environment
- Familiarity with Macintosh platform
- Degree in Photography, Design, related field or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 3 years of commercial creative retouching experience
- Portfolio review and retouch test will be conducted for qualifying applicants
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Retoucher Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of retoucher. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for retoucher
- Backing up all work
- Check and maintain each week that correct images were uploaded
- Responsible for retouching content images, blog posts and all social images
- Field image requests daily from design team, web production and marketing
- Coordinate with 3rd party retouching vendor to maintain image quality and image consistency
- Retouch all product images according to BHLDN standards that feel natural and authentic
- Name, upload, and archive each product onto scene 7 and MTS in a timely fashion
- Create color swatches for each product
- Crop creative and product images to create alternate views for product pages
- Oversee retouching schedule ensuring images are delivered in timely manner
Qualifications for retoucher
- Experience with catalogue/multi-page layout
- Maintain professional workflow standards and proper file naming
- Must be able to work well with auction specialists, designers, photographers and Art Director
- Post production and retouching experience required
- Minimum of 2-5 years working as a professional retoucher in a studio environment
- Exceptional knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite
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Retoucher Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of retoucher. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for retoucher
- Check new activations to ensure images are concise and consistent across web page
- Make changes as needed to live images that do not meet standards to maintain consistency within cropping, exposure, product retouching
- Correspond to any requests and inquires about product and resolving in a timely fashion
- Maintain digital asset library management
- Partner with Creative Director on retouching direction for assigned creative shoots ensuring overall vision is executed appropriately
- Partner with design team on additional retouching or cut out design needs for print and email campaigns
- Assist production team as needed during smaller activation months with bookings, call sheets, and overall production coordination
- Relink images in InDesign, assemble pages for output
- Partner with the Digital Technicians and photographers to avoid issues or bottlenecks in retouching, such as reshoots, revisions to live imagery or unsatisfactory results to final images
- Responsible to maintain organization of assets and daily assignments quality assurance of all images – color, sizing, horizon lines and adjustments are consistent - before delivery of files
Qualifications for retoucher
- Highly Developed eye for color
- CMYK & RGB color spaces
- GMG Software
- Willingness to work as part of a team and take direction
- Background in film, and traditional photographic printing and techniques
- Experience with scanning photos on flatbed and overhead scanners to digitize prints, slides, 35mm negatives
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Retoucher Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of retoucher. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for retoucher
- Retouch and upload all product images for Anthropologies’ Web Studio
- Meet the retouching standards for the Anthropologie brand so that all images feel natural and authentic
- Prioritize images to ensure that all available products are uploaded for daily activations
- Meet daily image goals and display flexibility when deadlines change
- Work collaboratively with photographers to communicate that all images are available
- Be available to answer emails and problem solve
- Image retouching utilizing masking, layers, channels
- Work collaboratively with photographers to communicate that all images are available, labeled correctly, and up to date
- Maintain and update all archives for web related images
- Create composite images from multiple image sources
Qualifications for retoucher
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Adobe Creative Cloud
- Trained eye for color
- Must have good color vision (Candidate to disclose any deficiency in color vision)
- Candidate must take a color vision test
- Photography or Design background/education
- 1-2 years retouching and post production experience preferred
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Retoucher Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of retoucher. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for retoucher
- Perform complex retouch tasks such as replacing textures on fabric materials, re-lighting products and environments, correcting banding and moiré issues
- Retouching / compositing / image finaling
- Interfacing with design, web, stores, engineering and manufacturing to provide visualization solutions
- Photography acquisition for backgrounds and HDR imagery
- Researching and developing pipeline solutions and techniques
- Retouch, color correct, crop, and upload product and model photography across multiple brands and style guides with minimal guidance
- Retouch editorial work to a high standard when required
- Help train and support junior retouchers
- React quickly to requests and take action when necessary
- Evaluate color and content according to customer specifications
Qualifications for retoucher
- Interest in Fashion admiration and understanding of the Urban Outfitters brand preferred
- Excellent organizational, time management, communication, and detail-oriented skills
- Ability to work with others in a teamwork-oriented environment
- Highly proficient on Mac platform, familiarity with Windows a plus
- An interest in interior design is an advantage
- 3 or more years of retouching and post-production experience preferred