I am a photographer, digital artist, and high-end retoucher with more than 20 years of experience in editorial, advertising, fashion, and commercial visual production. I excel at leading full visual production workflows — from photographic direction and image capture to advanced post-production, color management, compositing, AI-assisted workflows, and final output for digital platforms and offset print. My work blends technical precision with strong artistic judgment to deliver realistic visuals that align with brand aesthetics and production schedules. As a Visual Quality Control Specialist at Grupo Expansión, I oversaw color consistency, retouching standards, and print-ready quality across multiple national publications, coordinating between photography, design, and print teams. I am passionate about integrating AI tools into scalable commercial production while preserving material fidelity, lighting, and texture to achieve high-quality, realistic results for editorial and advertising campaigns.

Edgar Ignacio Covarrubias Capallera

I am a photographer, digital artist, and high-end retoucher with more than 20 years of experience in editorial, advertising, fashion, and commercial visual production. I excel at leading full visual production workflows — from photographic direction and image capture to advanced post-production, color management, compositing, AI-assisted workflows, and final output for digital platforms and offset print. My work blends technical precision with strong artistic judgment to deliver realistic visuals that align with brand aesthetics and production schedules. As a Visual Quality Control Specialist at Grupo Expansión, I oversaw color consistency, retouching standards, and print-ready quality across multiple national publications, coordinating between photography, design, and print teams. I am passionate about integrating AI tools into scalable commercial production while preserving material fidelity, lighting, and texture to achieve high-quality, realistic results for editorial and advertising campaigns.

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I am a photographer, digital artist, and high-end retoucher with more than 20 years of experience in editorial, advertising, fashion, and commercial visual production. I excel at leading full visual production workflows — from photographic direction and image capture to advanced post-production, color management, compositing, AI-assisted workflows, and final output for digital platforms and offset print. My work blends technical precision with strong artistic judgment to deliver realistic visuals that align with brand aesthetics and production schedules.

As a Visual Quality Control Specialist at Grupo Expansión, I oversaw color consistency, retouching standards, and print-ready quality across multiple national publications, coordinating between photography, design, and print teams. I am passionate about integrating AI tools into scalable commercial production while preserving material fidelity, lighting, and texture to achieve high-quality, realistic results for editorial and advertising campaigns.

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Language

Spanish; Castilian
Fluent
English
Advanced

Work Experience

Independent Photographer & Visual Production Specialist
January 1, 2012 - Present
Development of visual campaigns, editorial productions, luxury retouching, AI-enhanced workflows, and digital compositing projects for fashion, advertising, commercial, and creative industries. Responsibilities include high-end retouching for fashion, beauty, automotive, and editorial projects; AI-assisted visual production and correction workflows; Realistic image reconstruction and compositing; Color grading and consistency across campaigns; Creation of conceptual photo illustrations and digital artwork; Luxury product visualization; Prompt engineering and AI workflow development; Final asset preparation for print and digital delivery; Visual QA and production supervision.
Grupo Expansión — Senior Retoucher & Visual Quality Control Specialist at Grupo Expansión
January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2012
Oversaw image quality and print production standards across multiple national magazines and editorial titles. Publications included GQ México, Vogue México, ELLE México, Quién, Life&Style, Esquire México and additional Grupo Expansión publications. Responsibilities included high-end editorial retouching, cover image finishing and visual development; Color correction for offset print production; Prepress image preparation; Visual consistency control across publications; Creative compositing and conceptual cover artwork; Coordination between photography, design, and print departments; Quality control for large-scale editorial production pipelines; Developed complex visual compositions and conceptual cover imagery long before modern AI tools existed, using advanced manual compositing and digital illustration techniques across multiple photographic sources.
Independent Photographer & Visual Production Specialist at Self-Employed / Freelance
January 1, 2012 - Present
Development of visual campaigns, editorial productions, luxury retouching, AI-enhanced workflows, and digital compositing projects for fashion, advertising, commercial, and creative industries. Responsibilities include: high-end retouching for fashion, beauty, automotive, and editorial projects; AI-assisted visual production and correction workflows; realistic image reconstruction and compositing; color grading and consistency across campaigns; creation of conceptual photo illustrations and digital artwork; luxury product visualization; prompt engineering and AI workflow development; final asset preparation for print and digital delivery; visual QA and production supervision. Projects range from editorial portraits and campaign imagery to advanced digital compositions combining multiple photographic sources into seamless final artwork.
Senior Retoucher & Visual Quality Control Specialist at Grupo Expansión
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2012
Oversaw image quality and print production standards across multiple national magazines and editorial titles. Responsibilities included high-end editorial retouching, cover image finishing and visual development, color correction for offset print production, prepress image preparation, visual consistency control across publications, creative compositing and conceptual cover artwork, and coordination between photography, design, and print departments. Also contributed to AI & visual production workflows and quality control for large-scale editorial pipelines.

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Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Retail, Other