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Hire a Photo Editor & Retoucher.

Product, property and portrait photos, edited and retouched.

Also called: Photo Editor, Photo Retoucher, Image Editor

From AUD $6 an hourAUD $6-27.50/hr

  • E-commerce
  • Real estate
  • Media & creators
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  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your Photo Editor & Retoucher gets doneSample day
  • Checks the brief, shot list and spec sheetIntake & preparation
  • Draws precise pen-tool clipping paths and masksE-commerce & product editing
  • Blends bracketed HDR or flash/ambient exposuresReal estate editing
  • Retouches skin with frequency separationPortrait & beauty retouchingDoing
In your tools
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Lightroom Classic
  • Adobe Bridge
  • Shopify
  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $10.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate Photo Editor & RetoucherAUD $10.50/hr
60-75% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns a complete workflow end to end with light review.

  • Ghost mannequin apparel sets
  • Real estate listing sets
  • Retouched headshot or portrait sets

2-4 years of commercial editing in at least one specialisation.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your Photo Editor & Retoucher

Tasks

  • Intake & preparation

    • Checks the brief, shot list and spec sheet
    • Imports and renames files to your naming convention
    • Sets up Lightroom catalogues, presets and Photoshop actions for the batch

  • E-commerce & product editing

    • Draws precise pen-tool clipping paths and masks
    • Builds ghost mannequin composites
    • Matches product colour to the physical sample or reference swatch
    • Removes dust, lints, creases, fingerprints and stray reflections

  • Real estate editing

    • Blends bracketed HDR or flash/ambient exposures
    • Corrects verticals and lens distortion
    • Replaces skies, green lawns
    • Virtually stage empty rooms with furniture

  • Portrait & beauty retouching

    • Retouches skin with frequency separation
    • Removes stray hairs, fixes garments

  • Culling & colour grading

    • Culls wedding and event sets in Photo Mechanic
    • Colour-grades selects with a base preset plus per-image corrections

  • Quality control & delivery

    • Self-checks every image at 100% zoom against your QC checklist
    • Exports to the exact dimensions, colour profile, format
    • Logs turnaround time, image counts and revision reasons

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English & brief handlingAll levels20 min
  2. Photoshop core skills testAll levels60 min
  3. Batch speed & accuracy runAll levels1.5 hrs
  4. Specialisation work sampleIntermediate and up2 hrs
  5. Portfolio & layered file reviewIntermediate and up30 min
  6. Client escalation role-playExpert and Specialist30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

88%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Photo Editor & Retoucher is AUD $6 an hour, Intermediate AUD $10.50, Expert AUD $16.50 and Specialist AUD $27.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Intake & preparation, e-commerce & product editing, real estate editing and portrait & beauty retouching, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English & brief handling, photoshop core skills test and batch speed & accuracy run. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Photo Editor & Retoucher works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your Photo Editor & Retoucher works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Photo Editor & Retoucher owns a complete workflow end to end with light review. An Expert Photo Editor & Retoucher handles complex composites, jewellery, glass and chrome, high-end beauty and virtual staging. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Photo Editor & Retoucher is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom Classic, before you meet them.

In week one: creates and tests accounts; confirms software licences; and calibrates the monitor with a Calibrite or X-Rite device. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Photo Editor, Photo Retoucher and Image Editor. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

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