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About me

I am a Professional Specialist Retoucher with over 30 years experience working with leading Photographers, Advertising Agencies as well as Production and Retail houses in South Africa. Most of my work has featured in leading magazines, books, packaging, billboards, Store Posters and brochures all over my country and abroad.
I am a qualified Photolithographer so my knowledge of DTP and print is extensive and I am able to work on all Adobe products right through to press ready PDF's.

I am very familiar with tight deadlines and producing work in an accurate and speedy manor.
Strengths:
- Ensure colour consistency between images
- Strong colour correction and colour matching skills
- Proven experience in retouching product photography
- Excellent eye for detail
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of digital photography (small, medium and large format)
- Ensure adherence to the retouching process and requirements needed
- Take an image and enhancing it or creating a whole new image from various images
- Large Format Retouching
- Edit or extend backgrounds, adjust colour tones and retouch skin textures and clean up images according to the brand guideline book
- Extensive retouching skills when removing facial contours, conceal stray hairs, wrinkles, or blemishes and softening harsh highlights

I hope to hear from you soon!

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AvailabilityLooking for work

ContractFreelance, Remote

LocationCape Town, South Africa

Skill LevelSenior

LanguagesEnglish

Tagged Job TitlesRetoucher, Artworker, Creative Artworker

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Advertising, Colour, Desktop Publishing, Image Retouching, Print

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