Senior Packaging Artworker & Image Retoucher

Butterfly Cannon Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Butterfly Cannon Ltd in central London is seeking an experienced Artworker to join the Artwork & Production team. You will transform designers’ concepts into print-ready and screen-ready packaging artwork, ensuring colour accuracy and production-ready files for labels, cartons, and POS.

You’ll lead on image retouching and composites, build artwork to printer specs, and adapt master designs across product ranges while maintaining quality, colour management, and efficient workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven artworking experience in a design agency, artwork studio or prepress environment.
• Strong retouching and image comping portfolio for print and digital work.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite on Mac.
• Knowledge of litho, flexo, digital and gravure print and setup.
• Solid colour management for CMYK/spot and RGB/web.

Responsibilities

• Turn approved designs into accurate print-ready artwork for labels, cartons, shippers, pouches, POS and other print collateral.
• Build artwork to printer specifications, including substrates, colour separations, spot colours, foils, embossing, varnishes, cutter guides and trapping.
• Prepare digital and screen assets, such as retailer pack shots, social, web and digital display, to platform sizes, formats and specs.
• Retouch and prepare images to a high standard for print and screen, using colour-managed workflows.
• Adapt master artwork across range extensions, pack formats, languages and regulatory copy.
• Preflight and output final files, and check proofs against artwork.
• Follow and maintain file naming, version control and archiving standards.

Skills

Artworking experience

Retouching & image comping

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Colour management

Print workflow knowledge

Portfolio readiness

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Acrobat Pro

Cutter guides & dielines

Figma

AI image tools

Job description

Butterfly Cannon Ltd in central London is seeking an experienced Artworker to join the Artwork & Production team. You will transform designers’ concepts into print-ready and screen-ready packaging artwork, ensuring colour accuracy and production-ready files for labels, cartons, and POS.

You’ll lead on image retouching and composites, build artwork to printer specs, and adapt master designs across product ranges while maintaining quality, colour management, and efficient workflows.