Retouching & Automation

Product Retouching & Automation — Blake Loosli

Commercial Retouching & Image Automation

Clean product images.
Built to scale.

15+ years retouching footwear and product images for major retailers — plus custom automation that turns days of manual work into minutes.

15,000+
Images per year
15+
Years experience
10+
Major retail partners
Wacom Pro Pen

Every imperfection, corrected

High-volume product retouching for footwear and e-commerce brands. Deep familiarity with the specific challenges of product photography — from material textures to studio artifacts — means images that look intentional, consistent, and ready for any channel.

Form removal example
Scuff correction example
Sticker shadow cleanup example
Studio Edit
Tan Painting
Lifestyle cleanup
Lint & dust removal
Bad stitching correction
Metal smoothing
Shape & reshaping
Glue residue removal
Logo Correction
Form removal
Room reflection removal
Translucency & mesh handling
Shadow separation
Color correction
Multi-format export

Retouching to delivery

Experience across the full post-production pipeline — from raw images off camera through retouching, export, and retailer delivery. That end-to-end perspective means fewer handoff problems and a cleaner path to going live.

01
Retouching
Manual retouching in Photoshop — lint removal, reshaping, color correction, masking, and all the material-specific fixes that make product images look intentional. Quality-checked before anything goes further.
02
Batch Processing & Export
Custom workflows handle canvas resizing, layer management, and multi-format export across hundreds of SKUs — consistently and without manual repetition.
03
Retailer Delivery
Finished assets delivered to Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom Rack, Macy’s, Famous Footwear, JC Penney, Kohl’s, Amazon, and others — each with unique naming conventions, sizing, and delivery specs handled correctly.

Less clicking. More output.

Custom workflows tailored to high-volume product image production. If your team is spending hours on repetitive tasks, there’s likely a faster way.

Batch Retouching Pipeline

Custom ExtendScript automation handles canvas resizing, masking, layer management, and multi-format export across hundreds of SKUs — unattended and consistent.

Hundreds of SKUs processed per session
Batch retouching pipeline screenshot

Infographic Generation

Data-driven callout graphic creation fed from CSV — custom text and graphic overlays applied automatically across thousands of product styles for partner sites like Amazon.

Thousands of styles, automated
Infographic generation screenshot

Retailer File Renaming

CSV-driven find/replace batch renaming to match retailer-specific file naming conventions at scale — no manual rework when delivery specs change.

Any naming convention, any volume
Retailer file renaming screenshot

SKU Tracking Dashboards

Production dashboards with network file validation and date-modified checking — so you always know where each SKU stands in the pipeline without hunting through folders.

Real-time production status at a glance
SKU tracking dashboard screenshot

Partner Submission Sheets

Automated creation of retailer submission spreadsheets including image import and formatting. What used to take a day and a half now takes 10 minutes.

Day and a half → 10 minutes
Partner submission sheets screenshot

DAM & Channel Delivery

Experienced with Salsify for organizing channel-specific asset sets, retailer naming rules, and delivery configuration. Clients retain their own account — I work within your existing setup.

Works within your existing DAM
Salsify channel delivery screenshot

More Skillsets

Beyond retouching and automation, I bring a range of creative and technical skills to product-focused work.

Catalog sample
InDesign · Data-driven

Catalog Creation

Automated product catalog production using scripted InDesign templates — category-based page breaks, grid layouts, and data pulled directly from your product feed or spreadsheet.

Trade show mockup
SketchUp · 3D

Trade Show Mockups

3D booth and display mockups in SketchUp for trade show planning — visualize fixture layouts, signage placement, and product display before you build anything.

Product illustration
Illustration · Photoshop

Product Illustration & Mockups

Hand-crafted product illustration and composite mockups — useful for pre-production visualization, marketing materials, or any situation where photography isn’t available yet.

After Effects · Automation

Colorway Video Sequencing

Automated combination of per-colorway product videos into a single seamless looping video — driven by a script, consistent across any number of colorways, ready for web or social.

Services

Available for freelance and contract work. Whether you need clean product images, a faster pipeline, or something more specialized — reach out and we can talk through what fits.

Product Retouching

High-quality retouching for footwear, apparel, and hard goods. Consistent results across large SKU sets.

Batch Processing & Scripting

Custom Photoshop actions and JSX scripts built to your workflow. Run once, replicate forever.

Retailer Asset Prep

Resize, rename, and format image sets to meet the exact specs of major retail partners.

Catalog Production

Data-driven InDesign catalog automation — scripted templates that build themselves from your product data.

Trade Show Mockups

3D SketchUp mockups for trade show booth and display planning before anything gets built.

Product Illustration

Illustration and composite mockups for pre-production visualization or marketing use.

Colorway Video Sequencing

Automated multi-colorway product videos stitched into seamless loops for web and social.

Pipeline Consulting

Audit your current image production workflow and identify where automation can cut time and errors.

Let’s work together

Have a project in mind? Whether it’s retouching, automation, or pipeline work — I’d love to hear what you’re working on.

Contact Me blake@blakeloosli.com