Retoucher Beauty

Job Description Retoucher Employment Type: Freelance / Contract We are seeking a detail-oriented Retoucher to produce polished, commercially ready product imagery for a fast-paced beauty and consumer products organization. This freelance role will focus on enhancing still-life photography, cosmetics, packaging, and e-commerce assets while preserving accurate color, texture, and product integrity. What You’ll Do Retouch product, packaging, beauty, and still-life imagery for digital, e-commerce, and marketing use. Perform precise color correction, color matching, cleanup, and image refinement while maintaining realistic product appearance. Retouch swatches, powders, creams, liquids, glosses, jellies, textures, and other complex product surfaces. Refine labels, edges, surfaces, reflections, and minor imperfections to a high commercial standard. Work from Capture One selects, creative briefs, and detailed retouching notes. Deliver initial retouching rounds and efficiently incorporate feedback through final approval. Maintain organized files and follow established naming, folder, export, and delivery conventions. Manage multiple assignments while meeting established turnaround timelines. Partner closely with photographers, producers, art directors, and creative stakeholders as needed. Must-Have Qualifications 3+ years of professional retouching experience, ideally within beauty, cosmetics, fashion, consumer products, or e-commerce. Demonstrated experience retouching beauty products, packaging, cosmetics, and/or still-life imagery. Strong expertise in Adobe Photoshop and professional retouching workflows. Experience retouching a range of product textures, including swatches, powders, creams, liquids, glosses, and jellies. Strong understanding of color correction, color matching, and accurate product-color reproduction. Ability to clean and refine packaging, labels, edges, surfaces, and imperfections without over-retouching. Experience creating high-end, polished imagery for e-commerce or commercial use. Exceptional attention to detail, consistency, quality, and finish. Ability to interpret detailed creative direction while applying sound independent judgment. Comfort working from Capture One selects and provided retouching briefs. Strong project-management, file-organization, and deadline-management skills. Reliable communication and responsiveness throughout the retouching process. Ability to provide initial rounds and incorporate feedback efficiently through final delivery. A portfolio demonstrating strong product retouching work. Nice to Have Experience with compositing, image manipulation, or advanced cleanup techniques. Experience retouching transparent, translucent, reflective, or otherwise complex product surfaces. Familiarity with fast-paced beauty, consumer product, or e-commerce production workflows. Experience collaborating with creative teams, art directors, photographers, and producers. Understanding of digital and e-commerce image standards, specifications, and export requirements. Experience working within an established retouching tier or estimated-hours system.