1. Job Summary
Progressive Technology is seeking a talented, creative, and detail-oriented Photo Retoucher - Product Image Editing to join its digital creative and visual production team. The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing, editing, and refining product photographs to ensure they meet professional quality standards and effectively represent products across e-commerce platforms, digital catalogues, websites, online marketplaces, and marketing campaigns.
This role involves working with raw product images and transforming them into polished, visually appealing photographs through professional retouching techniques, colour correction, background removal, image enhancement, and detailed editing. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of digital photography, image composition, lighting, colour accuracy, and visual consistency.
The Photo Retoucher will collaborate with photographers, graphic designers, e-commerce specialists, marketing professionals, and content teams to deliver high-quality visual assets within established deadlines. Candidates who demonstrate creativity, technical expertise, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple editing assignments are encouraged to apply.
2. Key Responsibilities
- Edit and retouch product photographs to achieve professional, high-quality visual presentation.
- Perform background removal, replacement, and cleanup to create clean and consistent product images.
- Adjust brightness, contrast, exposure, sharpness, saturation, and colour balance.
- Correct imperfections, dust, scratches, reflections, shadows, and unwanted objects in product photographs.
- Ensure accurate product colours, textures, shapes, and details are maintained during the editing process.
- Prepare product images for e-commerce websites, online marketplaces, digital advertisements, brochures, and promotional materials.
- Apply advanced photo manipulation and retouching techniques using professional image-editing software.
- Create consistent image styles, dimensions, resolutions, and visual standards across product collections.
- Enhance product presentation through realistic shadows, highlights, reflections, and image adjustments.
- Resize, crop, compress, and optimise images for different digital platforms and publishing requirements.
- Review edited images to identify visual errors, inconsistencies, and quality issues before final delivery.
- Organise image files, maintain appropriate naming conventions, and manage digital asset folders.
- Work closely with photography, design, marketing, and e-commerce teams to understand creative requirements.
- Manage multiple image-editing projects while meeting production schedules and delivery deadlines.
- Follow brand guidelines and maintain confidentiality when handling product images and business assets.
- Stay updated on emerging photo-editing techniques, software developments, and digital imaging trends.
3. Required Skills and Qualifications
- Diploma, certificate, or degree in Photography, Graphic Design, Digital Media, Visual Arts, or a related field is preferred.
- Strong practical knowledge of professional photo-editing and retouching techniques.
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and familiarity with Adobe Lightroom.
- Understanding of colour correction, image enhancement, masking, layers, clipping paths, and background removal.
- Knowledge of product photography, lighting, shadows, reflections, and image composition.
- Ability to maintain accurate product appearance while improving overall image quality.
- Strong visual judgement and exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to follow creative instructions, brand guidelines, and technical image specifications.
- Good organisational, time-management, and task-prioritisation skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a creative production environment.
- Basic understanding of e-commerce image requirements and digital publishing formats.
- Good communication skills and willingness to accept feedback and make revisions.
4. Experience
- Previous experience in photo retouching, product image editing, image enhancement, or digital photography is preferred.
- Candidates with 1-3 years of relevant professional experience will be advantageous.
- Experience editing product images for e-commerce websites, online stores, retail catalogues, or advertising campaigns is desirable.
- A portfolio demonstrating professional retouching, background removal, colour correction, and product image enhancement is highly valued.
- Freshers with relevant training, practical editing skills, and a strong portfolio may also be considered.
- Experience handling large volumes of product photographs while maintaining consistent quality will be an advantage.
5. Working Hours
Full-time and part-time opportunities may be available depending on business requirements.
Standard working schedules will be communicated during the recruitment process.
Flexible working arrangements or remote opportunities may be considered for suitable candidates, depending on project requirements.
Candidates should be able to manage assigned workloads and meet agreed delivery deadlines.
Occasional additional hours may be required during high-volume production periods or urgent marketing projects.
6. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Technical Knowledge
- Advanced understanding of Adobe Photoshop tools, layers, masks, selections, and retouching workflows.
- Knowledge of image formats, including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, and WebP.
- Understanding of RGB and CMYK colour modes, image resolution, DPI, and digital image optimisation.
- Familiarity with professional product photography and commercial image-editing standards.
- Knowledge of batch editing, file organisation, and digital asset management practices.
Creative Skills
- Excellent eye for detail, colour accuracy, balance, and visual consistency.
- Ability to transform ordinary product photographs into attractive commercial images.
- Creativity in enhancing product presentation without misrepresenting the actual product.
- Strong understanding of composition, lighting, texture, and visual aesthetics.
Professional Abilities
- Ability to manage several editing assignments simultaneously.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and correct image-quality issues.
- Ability to work efficiently under deadlines without compromising quality.
- Willingness to learn new tools, techniques, and creative workflows.
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members and respond positively to feedback.
7. Benefits
Progressive Technology aims to provide a supportive and professional working environment where creative professionals can develop their technical abilities and build rewarding careers.
Depending on the employment arrangement and eligibility, benefits may include:
- Competitive salary based on experience, technical expertise, and portfolio quality.
- Flexible working arrangements where available.
- Opportunities for remote or hybrid working, subject to business requirements.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Exposure to diverse product categories and commercial image-editing projects.
- Opportunities to work with experienced creative and digital marketing professionals.
- Supportive team environment and collaborative working culture.
- Opportunities to develop advanced photo-retouching and digital imaging skills.
- Performance-based recognition and potential career advancement opportunities.
- Opportunities to contribute to large-scale e-commerce and digital marketing projects.
8. Why Join Progressive Technology?
Joining Progressive Technology offers an opportunity to contribute to professional digital content production and visual brand development. As a Photo Retoucher, you will play an important role in improving how products are presented to customers across digital platforms.
You will have opportunities to work on diverse creative assignments, strengthen your technical expertise, experiment with professional editing techniques, and develop a portfolio of commercial image-editing projects.
Progressive Technology values creativity, accuracy, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We encourage individuals who are passionate about digital photography and visual storytelling to bring their skills, ideas, and commitment to our creative team.
Whether you are an experienced retoucher or an emerging creative professional with a strong portfolio, this role offers an opportunity to grow your career in digital image production.