Position: Senior Creative Retoucher
Hours: 9AM - 5PM
Location: Purley
Salary: DOE
About the business:
My client 30 years-experience of designing and producing brands that win at the retail shelf. Our clients trust us time and again, over decades, to lead them through the changing dynamics of the shopper world and to design packaging that ensures their brands are picked first. We deliver our 360 design to artwork philosophy efficiently, faithfully, and accurately, across the globe. We create and produce as one seamless, joined up team of experts, all under one roof.
Purpose of a Senior Creative Retoucher:
As senior creative retoucher, you will be responsible in supporting the Creative Director with the running of the retouching team, along with completing creative and technical retouching tasks to the highest standard.. You will be passionate about imagery and retouching and will have solid experience in food and/or beverage packaging with an exceptional eye for detail. This role will require you to demonstrate your artistic flair by creating digitally beautiful compositions with an understanding of the technical and colour work requirements. You will be able to manage your own workload and are able to hit deadlines within an extremely fast paced art studio.
Over responsibilities of a Senior Creative Retoucher:
- To produce creative, accurate and beautiful images to tight deadlines and within budget.
- Provide retouching estimates and support team members.
- Photographic responsibilities including simple ingredient/food shot photography.
- Responsible for product imagery, processing, retouching, comping and image evaluation.
- Colour correction and creating natural looking images including full image composing with an understanding of creating light, shade and integration.
- Evaluate designs to identify where retouching can maximise the image
- Manage a high volume of work at a fast pace to a consistently high standard, ensuring that all requirements of the brief are met within timescale and budget
- Liaise with account managers and provide full details of images used for invoicing purposes.
- Ensure file construction is in line with best practice and in line with bespoke company requirements.
- To deputise for the Creative Director as required and be the retouching point person in absence.
- To grow into the right-hand person for the Creative Director.
- Champion the company's core values and high standards.
Skills and Qualifications required for a Senior Creative Retoucher
- 5+ years of retouch experience
- FMCG packaging retouch/photographic experience
- Passionate about retouching/imagery
- An understanding of food and/or beverage packaging artwork and demonstration of apply retouching accordingly
- Comping ingredients together to create serving suggestions essential
- To be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the principles of light, shadow, perspective and spatial awareness (for comping)
- Understanding and application of CMKY, spot conversion, and desktop colour separation (DCS)
- Portfolio showing quality pieces and various types of retouching
- Portfolio showing complex colour correction/channel work desirable
- Experience in managing and/or mentoring team members
- Used to working in a fast paced, high volume creative environment
- Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop/Creative Suite/MAC experience
- Knowledgeable about colour work/correction
- Knowledgeable about image size/quality and lighting
- Highly creative with good visual awareness and a keen eye for detail
- Knowledge of digital photography would be advantageous
- Experience of applying mid dot% and working with printers ink limitations (total ink coverage) advantageous
- Commercial awareness
If are interested in this role, please apply today.
For more information, please call Olivia on 020 8051 3908
