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Retouching Specialist III
eTeam UK
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- On-site
- 1 day ago
- Photoshop
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Location: London, SW11 8BZ (Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite)
Duration: 12 months contract initially
Summary:
- We're looking for a Content Retoucher to support the delivery of artwork for original TV shows and films on platform.
- Working closely alongside our content designers and art directors, you'll take approved concepts and compositions through to final, pixel-perfect execution — ensuring every image is production-ready, consistent, and true to the creative direction established for each title.
- This role sits downstream of concept and design, focusing on the craft of finishing: high end retouching, clean compositing, and precise grading across cover art.
- You’ll work from layered files, unit photography, and episodic stills, and will often be the last set of hands on an asset before final production and publishing.
- As an experienced member of the team, you're expected to work entirely autonomously, exercise strong craft judgment on ambiguous or complex assets, set technical standards for the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take design approved compositions through to fully finished, on-platform-ready artwork.
- Perform advanced retouching (skin, wardrobe, environment, cleanup) while preserving the tone and intent set by the content designer and art director.
- Execute precise compositing work across multiple source assets — stills, unit photography, and layered PSDs — ensuring seamless integration and consistent lighting/perspective, even on the most technically demanding assets.
- Apply grading and colour correction to match established visual direction across a title's artwork set.
- Own file hygiene standards (layer structure, naming, resolution, colour space) and ensure smooth handoff to production pipelines.
- Partner closely with content designers and art directors to understand creative intent, flag technical constraints, and proactively troubleshoot problem assets before they become blockers.
- Manage multiple assets/titles in parallel across competing deadlines, prioritising independently and escalating only when necessary.
- Contribute expertise to defining best practices as the volume of original titles scales..
Essential Skills:
- 6+ years professional experience in high-end retouching, ideally within entertainment, editorial, advertising, or streaming/on-platform creative.
- Expert-level Photoshop skills, with deep mastery of advanced retouching, masking, and compositing techniques.
- Exceptional eye for detail, colour accuracy, and consistency across large asset sets.
- Extensive experience working with layered PSDs, raw stills, and mixed-resolution source material.
- Strong ability to interpret and faithfully execute another designer's creative direction, rather than originate it.
- Comfortable working at pace against tight deadlines without compromising quality.
- Highly organised, with strong file management and version control discipline.
- Demonstrated ability to work fully autonomously and exercise sound craft judgment under pressure.
- Clear understanding of formats and templates, ability to understand production ready files.
- Experience with frame extraction/grading from motion footage, or familiarity with entertainment/streaming asset specs.
Retouching Specialist III · eTeam UK