Content Retoucher

Job Title: Content Retoucher

Location: London, SW11 8BZ (Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite)

Duration: 12-month contract initially

Rate range: £285 to 345 per day on PAYE

Summary:

• We're looking for a Content Retoucher to support the delivery of artwork for original TV shows and films on platform.
• Working closely alongside our content designers and art directors, you'll take approved concepts and compositions through to final, pixel-perfect execution - ensuring every image is production-ready, consistent, and true to the creative direction established for each title.
• This role sits downstream of concept and design, focusing on the craft of finishing: high end retouching, clean compositing, and precise grading across cover art.
• You will work from layered files, unit photography, and episodic stills, and will often be the last set of hands on an asset before final production and publishing.
• As an experienced member of the team, you’re expected to work entirely autonomously, exercise strong craft judgment on ambiguous or complex assets, set technical standards for the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take design approved compositions through to fully finished, on-platform-ready artwork.
• Perform advanced retouching (skin, wardrobe, environment, cleanup) while preserving the tone and intent set by the content designer and art director.
• Execute precise compositing work across multiple source assets - stills, unit photography, and layered PSDs - ensuring seamless integration and consistent lighting/perspective, even on the most technically demanding assets.
• Apply grading and colour correction to match established visual direction across a title's artwork set.
• Own file hygiene standards (layer structure, naming, resolution, colour space) and ensure smooth handoff to production pipelines.
• Partner closely with content designers and art directors to understand creative intent, flag technical constraints, and proactively troubleshoot problem assets before they become blockers.
• Manage multiple assets/titles in parallel across competing deadlines, prioritizing independently and escalating only when necessary.
• Contribute expertise to defining best practices as the volume of original titles scales

Essential Skills:

• 6+ years professional experience in high-end retouching, ideally within entertainment, editorial, advertising, or streaming/on-platform creative.
• Expert-level Photoshop skills, with deep mastery of advanced retouching, masking, and compositing techniques.
• Exceptional eye for detail, colour accuracy, and consistency across large asset sets.
• Extensive experience working with layered PSDs, raw stills, and mixed-resolution source material.
• Strong ability to interpret and faithfully execute another designer's creative direction, rather than originate it.
• Comfortable working at pace against tight deadlines without compromising quality.
• Highly organised, with strong file management and version control discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to work fully autonomously and exercise sound craft judgment under pressure.
• Clear understanding of formats and templates, ability to understand production ready files.
• Experience with frame extraction/grading from motion footage, or familiarity with entertainment/streaming asset specs.

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