Photoshop Artist

Xanadu Studio is looking for an experienced Photoshop Designer who wants to work at the intersection of fine-detail image craft and AI-driven production.

This role combines strong retouching and compositing fundamentals with hands-on experience refining and correcting AI-generated imagery to a polished, photoreal standard.

Key Responsibilities
Design & Creative

• Perform high-quality photo compositing, blending multiple sources into seamless final images
• Retouch faces, hands, skin, and fine details with precision and realism
• Clean up, remove, or add objects and elements within a scene convincingly
• Apply cinematic color grading to establish mood, tone, and visual consistency
• Ensure lighting, shadows, and anatomy read as natural and physically accurate
  

AI Integration & Execution

• Refine and correct AI-generated images, fixing common generation artifacts such as:

1. Hands
2. Faces
3. Textures
4. Warped details
5. Composite AI-generated assets with live-action or other generated elements into cohesive final shots

• Maintain visual consistency across characters, environments, and shots throughout a project
• Upscale and finish generated assets to delivery-ready quality
• Iterate quickly across multiple versions to reach creative and technical benchmarks
  

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Photoshop designer/retoucher in an agency, studio, freelance, or similar environment
• Strong command of the Adobe Suite, especially Photoshop
• Lightroom and Illustrator experience is a plus
• Excellent eye for realism, lighting, and anatomy
• Experience with AI image generation tools
• Strong skills in:
• Compositing
• Retouching
• Object cleanup and addition
• Color grading
• Fast learner with high adaptability to new tools and workflows
• High attention to detail, especially in visual consistency and output quality

What This Role Offers

• Direct exposure to AI-first imaging and production workflows
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge branded and narrative visual content
• High creative involvement with rapid iteration cycles
• A strong learning curve across both traditional retouching and emerging AI tools
• Opportunity to help shape the future of the studio's image-finishing pipeline
  

Who This Is For

Designers with a sharp eye and strong technical retouching skills who want to go beyond traditional compositing and actively work with AI-generated imagery—refining, correcting, and elevating it to a polished, photoreal standard.