About The Role

KDCI Outsourcing is hiring a full-time Photo Retoucher who specializes in shoe montage production. You'll transform multiple footwear product angles into clean, polished, and consistent montage images that follow the brand's guidelines and production standards. This role calls for a sharp eye for detail, strong product-retouching skills, and a clear understanding of footwear imagery — someone who can take creative direction and turn it into accurate, professional, production-ready assets. Experience with footwear retouching, color correction, background cleanup, and high-volume production is essential.

Key Responsibilities

Shoe Montage Production

Create clean, consistent shoe montages by combining multiple product angles into a single composite image
Ensure all product angles are properly aligned and presented consistently
Maintain accurate proportions, symmetry, perspective, and positioning throughout each montage
Ensure the final montage accurately represents the actual footwear product

Footwear Retouching

Perform detailed retouching of footwear materials — leather, fabric, mesh, stitching, soles, and other product details
Refine shadows, highlights, reflections, and textures for a polished, realistic appearance
Remove imperfections and visual distractions while preserving the product's natural appearance
Maintain consistent product shape and presentation across different angles

Color Correction & Consistency

Perform accurate color correction to closely match the actual product
Maintain consistent colors across multiple product angles and images
Ensure colors align with client-approved references and specifications

Background & Asset Preparation

Standardize backgrounds according to approved templates and requirements
Prepare final assets to required dimensions, formats, and web specifications
Optimize files so they're ready for publishing or further production

Production & Workflow Management

Complete assigned work within established production and publishing timelines
Follow approved naming conventions and folder structures
Keep working files, source files, and final assets organized
Follow established version-control and client handoff procedures
Track tasks and updates using the preferred project management platform

Quality Control & Collaboration

Participate in regular quality checks and creative reviews
Apply client feedback accurately and consistently
Communicate clearly with the client and internal teams via Slack, Microsoft Teams, or other approved channels
Raise questions or flag concerns when requirements are unclear

Required

At least 2 years of professional experience in footwear photo retouching, shoe montage production, or a closely related product-retouching role
Proven hands-on experience creating shoe/footwear montages from multiple product angles
A portfolio demonstrating footwear retouching and montage work (required)
Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, including: layers, masking, selections, advanced retouching, frequency separation, color correction, and compositing
Strong experience in product color correction and color accuracy
Solid understanding of composition, symmetry, proportion, perspective, and product presentation
Experience with high-volume product catalogs and structured production workflows
Strong attention to detail across large batches of images
Ability to interpret creative direction and translate it into final assets
Comfortable following established brand guidelines, templates, and quality standards
Ability to work efficiently against production deadlines
Willingness to complete a practical retouching test or technical evaluation during recruitment

Preferred

Experience working with international clients or creative teams
Prior experience in footwear, fashion, e-commerce, or consumer-product photography
Experience with standardized product imagery for e-commerce platforms
Familiarity with structured creative-production and QA processes

Work Traits

Detail-oriented, strong visual judgment, quality-focused, patient and precise, proactive, independent and responsible, receptive to feedback, collaborative and organized, reliable and accountable, adaptable and professional communicator.

Photo Retoucher Shoe Montage Production