Senior Creative Retoucher

JR United Kingdom; Luton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Creative Retoucher in Luton. The role involves creating stunning imagery for marketing materials, utilizing advanced retouching techniques and collaborating with creative teams. Ideal candidates will showcase mastery in compositing and attention to detail, contributing to a dynamic team culture focused on innovation.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and good knowledge of RGB to CMYK workflows.
• Excellent eye for color and detail.
• Experience in high-end photorealistic retouching.

Responsibilities

• Conduct photorealistic retouching of high-end product images.
• Lead creative input and collaborate with Art Directors.
• Ensure exemplary standard of final imagery output.

Skills

Compositing

Retouching

Attention to detail

Understanding of light

Adobe Photoshop

Tools

Adobe CC applications

Job description

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Senior Creative Retoucher, Luton, Bedfordshire

Client: Lorien

Location: Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

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Posted:

06.06.2025

Expiry Date:

21.07.2025

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The role of the Senior Creative Retoucher is to push the boundaries of what we do, creatively and technically. To develop and perfect our imagery by supporting the graphic communication of our client’s marketing materials for all media types, globally. This involves simple to complex photorealistic retouching of high-end product stills and full room-set/location lifestyle and beauty imagery.

You will lead visually and creatively, setting the gold standard in crafting beautiful images that communicate our client’s engineering obsession. Your use of software is innovative, and workflow and pipelines are implemented skillfully to ensure final output is of exemplary standard.

Working independently or within teams, you will use your initiative, dive deep into briefs, and communicate fluently with both commercial and creative teams. The role offers a good level of creative input, proactively leading on your work development, while collaborating closely with Art Directors, Team Leaders, and the Head of Art through key stages of image creation.

As a senior member of the image team, you will demonstrate high initiative and commitment to the team’s success. Flexibility and adaptability are essential. We promote a culture of knowledge sharing for skills development, encouraging a two-way flow of knowledge where team members are eager to learn and teach.

As an artist, you have mastered your production and post-production tools and have a fundamental understanding of what makes a successful image. Light, form, surface texture, and colour are your essentials. You know how and where to use them for maximum effect. Your desire to improve and refine your images drives your work, with attention to detail and perfection in everything you see.

Your portfolio should showcase mastery of visual language, demonstrating both basic skills and innovative, intelligently crafted solutions. It should reflect your breadth and depth of interest in art and your extreme attention to detail.

Core skills include:

• Compositing: Excellent skills in combining visual elements into a cohesive image, creating the illusion of elements being shot in one scene. Knowledge of managing assets from various 3D and 2D packages.
• Understanding of how light behaves in real-world conditions to produce high-end photorealistic imagery, whether from traditional photography or CG experience.
• Retouching: Subtle, considered, and realistic retouching skills with an excellent eye for colour and detail. Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and good working knowledge of Adobe CC applications and RGB to CMYK workflows. Ability to manipulate images confidently during meetings.
• CGI: No skills required initially, but opportunities exist to develop skills by working alongside the CG team using 3D software to aid photorealistic retouching and career growth.