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This role engages professional Photoshop artists to complete real-world creative briefs while their process is captured for an open AI-evaluation dataset. Contributors deliver layered, production-quality PSD files and final outputs across disciplines including retouching, compositing, matte painting, game/UI assets, and print pre-press. The work requires an Apple Silicon Mac, a licensed copy of Photoshop, and strictly manual workflows without generative AI tools. It is highly independent, with tasks generally taking one to three hours and requiring publication of resulting work and session data under CC-BY-4.0. The engagement is urgent and emphasizes demonstrable professional portfolio quality.
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My strongest specialization is professional retouching and compositing. I have delivered layered PSDs and final assets for campaign imagery, e-commerce products, and portrait work, with careful attention to realism, color consistency, and production-ready file structure.
I use clear group names, descriptive layer labels, adjustment layers, smart objects where appropriate, and non-destructive masks. I separate source elements, retouching, color treatments, effects, and output-specific adjustments so the file remains editable and easy to audit.
I first identify the intended visual hierarchy, lighting direction, perspective, and output requirements. I then build the edit in stages using selections, masks, matched color and contrast, shadow integration, and regular checks at both working and final viewing sizes.
I would rely exclusively on established manual Photoshop methods, including cloning, healing, frequency separation where appropriate, hand-built selections and masks, transform tools, adjustment layers, and compositing techniques. I would ensure the recorded session clearly reflects that manual workflow.
I compare the work against every requirement in the brief, inspect edges and masks at high magnification, verify color and resolution, remove unnecessary layers or artifacts, preserve the editable master PSD, and export the requested final format using the specified output settings.
About the Role
Our client is building an open dataset of real, professional Photoshop work, published on HuggingFace under CC-BY-4.0, to evaluate how well AI systems understand creative editing. Not synthetic tasks. Not staged demos. Actual production work, done the way you already do it.
We’re looking for working Photoshop artists across six disciplines to complete client-style briefs while a screen recorder captures the session. You work from a brief, you open Photoshop, you do the job. Each task runs roughly 1–3 hours.
Your process is the product here. The layer decisions, the masking approach, the moment you undo three steps and take a different route – that’s exactly the signal this dataset is built to capture. If you’ve ever thought AI evaluation of creative work is shallow because the people building it have never actually retouched a beauty shot or built a matte painting, this is your chance to fix that.
Timeline:
This is an extremely urgent role with work starting immediately. If you are interested and apply, please expect to be contacted and requested to complete your account setup on September 9th (Friday), 10th (Saturday), or the 11th (Sunday) to be considered for this role.
What You’ll Do
Complete Photoshop tasks from a client-provided creative brief, working at your normal professional standard
Run a client-provided session recorder for the full duration of each task
Deliver layered, production-quality PSDs along with final output
Work independently, at your own pace, within the scope of each brief
Contribute work that will be published openly for research use
What You Bring
We’re recruiting across six specializations and aiming for balanced coverage. Tell us which one is your home turf:
Matte painting / digital environments
Key visual / campaign compositing
Game & UI assets
Print & packaging pre-press
Portrait / beauty retouching
E-commerce / product retouching
Hard requirements – please read carefully:
Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) with your own licensed copy of Photoshop. Intel Macs and Windows machines cannot be used for this engagement.
Photoshop only. No Illustrator, Nuke, Blender, Procreate, or iPad workflows in the captured session.
No generative AI of any kind – no Generative Fill, no Firefly, no third-party generative plugins. All work must be manually executed.
Individual contributor. No teams, studios, or subcontracted work.
Comfortable publishing openly under CC-BY-4.0, meaning the resulting work and session data will be freely available for anyone to use with attribution.
Demonstrable professional portfolio in at least one of the six categories above.
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