Freelance Photo Retoucher

Role overview

Create convincing product and lifestyle imagery by combining approved product assets with supplied scenes, references, and AI-generated elements. This freelance retouching work focuses on making every component look as though it belongs in one photograph while preserving the product’s original design and details.

Responsibilities

- Work from layered Photoshop files, project assets, visual references, and creative direction. - Composite product photography or renders into lifestyle scenes and AI-generated backgrounds. - Match perspective, scale, color, texture, sharpness, and depth of field across image elements. - Adjust lighting and create realistic shadows, highlights, and reflections so the product fits naturally into its surroundings. - Retouch or replace hands when needed, maintaining believable anatomy, skin texture, grip, scale, and interaction. - Find and fix AI artifacts and other realism issues, then deliver organized, editable files with clearly named layers and adjustments.

Requirements

- Strong Photoshop retouching, masking, precise selections, and nondestructive compositing skills. - A solid understanding of light and the ability to create plausible reflections, highlights, and shadows from references or visual judgment. - Practical experience generating or editing realistic image elements with dedicated AI image tools, then refining them in Photoshop. - Careful preservation of product shape, proportions, branding, controls, components, and material colors; replace AI-generated product elements with approved assets when needed. - Ability to handle routine technical corrections independently, communicate clearly, and respond quickly to feedback.

Nice to have

- Experience retouching glass, chrome, stainless steel, glossy plastic, or matte surfaces. - Before-and-after examples of product compositing, including AI-assisted work, and hand retouching.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote freelance work open to international applicants, with projects assigned as they arise and no fixed weekly commitment. - Pay is approximately $24–$25 USD per hour, typically booked in eight-hour days. A paid practical trial may be part of selection.