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Position Overview:
Monks is seeking a junior photo retoucher with a passion for cars and experience with AI tools to enhance and refine vehicle images. The ideal candidate has a keen eye for detail, excellent Photoshop skills, and familiarity with AI-assisted editing and image generation.
Responsibilities:
- Retouch and enhance car images to meet quality standards
- Remove imperfections and backgrounds, adjust color, contrast, and lighting
- Utilize AI tools for automatic retouching, upscaling, and background removal
- Generate synthetic or AI-enhanced images to complement original photos
- Ensure consistency across photo sets
- Collaborate with photographers and designers to achieve desired results
- Manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
- Assist in developing retouching workflows incorporating AI techniques
- Retouch and post-process 3D renders to ensure photorealism and seamless integration with photographic assets
Requirements:
- 3+ years of photo retouching experience, preferably in automotive or product photography
- Expert-level Adobe Photoshop skills
- Experience with AI image editing tools (e.g., Magnific AI, Topaz Labs, etc)
- Familiarity with AI image generation platforms (e.g., MidJourney, Comfy UI, etc)
- Strong understanding of color grading, masking, and compositing
- Passion for cars and automotive design
- Attention to detail and creative eye
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Portfolio showcasing automotive retouching and AI-assisted work
- Experience retouching and compositing 3D renders, with an understanding of render passes and integration into real-world imagery
- Photography experience is a plus!
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
