Image Retoucher

What's the Short Version?

The Image Retoucher maintains quality and standards for all company imagery. This role retouches high-quality images for e-commerce, print, and marketing channels, ensuring consistency and accuracy. The role drives continual improvement of Studio Ops asset deliverables and collaborates with creative, merchandising, digital product, and project management teams to apply technical and creative notes throughout the workflow. The Image Retoucher enhances, corrects, and manipulates images across projects, meeting milestone commitments and delivering on time while maintaining consistency and achieving merchandising and creative objectives. They verify quality control for accuracy and transitions seamlessly between digital and print formats.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Apply advanced color correction, retouching, and photo manipulation to deliver high-volume, polished assets for print and web, ensuring color accuracy using garments, swatches, and fabric standards.
• Use Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to retouch photography with precision in color, fabric representation, and fit.
• Utilize colorization skills to generate multiple colorways from a single image.
• Maintain brand standards across product categories through consistent retouching techniques.
• Implement color and file management standards, including object removal, compositing, color balancing, and silhouette creation.
• Help maintain image database organization – both on the server and in a future DAM solution.
• Manage workflow and asset tracking in Creative Force to meet deadlines.
• Collaborate with photographers, art directors, designers, and merchandising teams to maintain creative intent and production efficiency.
• Generate multiple colorways from single images using advanced colorization skills.
• Execute fit adjustments and image enhancements on on-model photography while preserving realism and styling intent.
• Retouch sample imagery to accurately reflect product features when discrepancies occur.
• Prepare and organize files in multiple formats for various uses, maintaining proper naming conventions and version control.
• Perform quality control checks to ensure deliverables meet technical specifications and brand guidelines.
• Communicate production changes clearly to leads and project managers and share process updates with senior team members.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.

What Are We Looking For?

• 4-6 years of post-production, retouching, or color correction experience
• Experienced in Creative Force workflow and asset management
• Working knowledge of InDesign and CaptureOne a plus
• Deep knowledge and understanding of RGB & CMYK color profiles and the conversion between them
• Experience with garment color matching using calibrated monitors with lightboxes, skin tone correction and fashion apparel retouching
• Exceptional eye for color accuracy and consistency
• Skilled in precise retouching and complex processes
• Ability to handle high-volume work with tight deadlines
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently
• Strong communication skills

What's Our Offer?

Salary Range: You`ll earn between $28.85 - $36.06 on an hourly basis, depending on experience.

Bonus: You`ll be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus up to 5% of base salary.

Paid Time Off: You`ll accrue paid time off on a weekly basis based on hours worked up to 112 hours per year to start. Employees also receive 8 paid holidays and 1 paid family day off.

Additional Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle
• Life insurance
• Short/long-term disability coverage
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Pet insurance

What Should You Expect?

Remote: Our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. Periodic travel may be required. The employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods while working on a computer and participating in virtual and in-person meetings. Frequent use of hands for keyboarding and standard office equipment is required. Occasional standing, walking, and reaching may be needed to attend meetings or collaborate in an office setting. The role requires the ability to perform close visual work on a computer for extended periods. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10–15 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.