Midweight High End Retoucher – £45,000pa
London based - Initially onsite 5 days / week, then Hybrid 3 days onsite.
We are working with a leading integrated / advertising agency that is on the hunt for a skilled and technically knowledgeable Midweight Retoucher to add to their friendly and collaborative team. You'll be working with heavy files and multilayer compositions that will be used for big out of home Ad campaigns so they require a highly skilled Photoshop artist who also has a solid print knowledge. The role would suit someone who has been focussed on retouching as their daily bread and butter for several years and working on final production files. It’s a Mid Weight role and in a great team with other retouchers, so you’ll get the opportunity to develop your craft and learn, but you should already be used to handling high-resolution assets, and ensuring files are fully optimised for both digital and print.
In this role, you will work under the guidance of the Lead Retoucher working across a variety of briefs. Projects could involve working with provided layouts and existing files and assets to build imagery or refine them and make them into finalised files that can be used to build masters and roll out campaigns across multiple formats by the artwork studio. Other briefs will include extensions, or transitioning digital RGB work to CMYK and looking at the colour balance to be useable for print, or working on files for the motion team that require working through layers to make them usable for animations. You might also be required to Res up files that will go on to be used on very large format OOH. Whatever the brief it is important that that you take pride in taking supplied PSDs and work with lots of attention to detail and care to reworking them into polished, production-ready files.
The Retoucher will need to have built strong experience with complex comps, and he skilled at high-level cutouts, cleaning up edges, and colour correction whilst working with files that can be 10-20gb. Print knowledge will be a strong advantage, as you’ll be working closely with a studio of artworkers who are delivering a adapts at pace.
Responsibilities:
* Seeing a project through from supplied .PSD to high quality work that will be used for print and digital deliverables.
* Handling large multi-layered Photoshop files, ensuring they are clean, organised, and production-ready.
* High-level retouching including comps, cut outs, edges, extension, and colour balancing as well as clean-ups and remove hard lines etc.
* Preparing assets and ensuring they are optimized to the right DPI and resolution for various formats, including for print, digital screens, and very large scale OOH work.
* Working closely with artworkers to ensure seamless production handover..
* Knowledge of flight checking and retouching with final file delivery best practices in mind.
* Collaborating with motion designers and 3D artists to discuss renders for retouch or working on files with Motion in mind.
* Adapting and extending imagery while maintaining consistency across multiple creative versions.
* Working efficiently under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
If you are a detail-oriented and skilled Retoucher with the knowledge and experience described above, make sure to APPLY and discuss this exciting opportunity with us.