Our client, a leading lifestyle fashion company based in Linden, NJ, is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Digital Retoucher to join their creative team.
This role is responsible for retouching a high volume of lifestyle and product photography for both e-commerce and print, ensuring all visual content meets brand standards for quality, consistency, and accuracy.
The ideal candidate has exceptional technical ability, strong visual instincts, and a refined eye for color, lighting, fabric detail, and composition.
Responsibilities:
- Retouch, color-correct, and finalize lifestyle and product images for e-commerce and print.
- Ensure all imagery meets brand standards for consistency, accuracy, and quality.
- Execute high-end retouching, compositing, and color matching with expert attention to lighting, shadow, and fabric texture.
- Perform color correction using physical product samples for both digital and print environments.
- Utilize non-destructive, multi-layered editing workflows.
- Create accurate clipping paths, masks, actions, and properly organized file structures.
- Work closely with Designers, Product Developers, and Photographers to maintain smooth workflows.
- Partner with Digital Operations to continuously elevate the brand’s visual presentation.
- Communicate effectively across creative and operational teams to ensure deliverables are accurate and on time.
- Composite products seamlessly into lifestyle imagery while maintaining realistic lighting, shadows, perspective, and texture integrity.
- Edit dynamic formats such as time-lapse sequences and animated GIFs for e-commerce and social media (strong plus but not required).
Qualifications:
- 3–5 years of professional digital retouching experience, preferably in fashion, e-commerce, or commercial photography.
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Bridge.
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong understanding of color theory, lighting behavior, fabric detail, and visual continuity.
- Ability to interpret and implement feedback quickly and accurately.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to work efficiently across teams.
- Highly organized with excellent time-management skills; able to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines.
- Self-sufficient problem solver who takes initiative while remaining receptive to direction.
- Experience with project management tools is a plus.
- Video editing skills (Adobe After Effects or Premiere) are a plus.
A retouching evaluation test will be required.
All applicants must submit a portfolio (online link or PDF) to be considered.
Location: Linden NJ
Salary: $70K