Senior photo retoucher with 13 years’ experience in fashion, beauty, and commercial imagery. Freelancing for 4 years, delivering high-end retouching for brands, photographers, and agencies across campaign, editorial, and e-commerce work.

SARAH NAGEL

Senior photo retoucher with 13 years’ experience in fashion, beauty, and commercial imagery. Freelancing for 4 years, delivering high-end retouching for brands, photographers, and agencies across campaign, editorial, and e-commerce work.

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Senior photo retoucher with 13 years’ experience in fashion, beauty, and commercial imagery. Freelancing for 4 years, delivering high-end retouching for brands, photographers, and agencies across campaign, editorial, and e-commerce work.

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Work Experience

Self Employed at Freelance / Self-employed
January 1, 2022 - Present
Senior photo retouching in fashion, beauty, and commercial imagery. Provides built client touchpoints and de-commerce retouching guidance for new hires, ensures brand consistency, manages retouching and post-production workflows, and supports campaign and editorial image finishing.
Senior Photo Retoucher at Self Employed
January 1, 2022 - Present
Independent photo retouching for fashion, beauty, and commercial imagery. Provides creative and e-commerce-focused retouching touchpoints, briefing and quality guidance to outsourcing teams, maintains brand consistency with artwork teams and art directors, and performs colour correction/grading, campaign and editorial retouching, and final finishing. Handles e-commerce workflows and file preparation for both print and digital, ensuring quality control and on-time delivery with fast turnaround times.
Self Employed at Freelance
January 1, 2022 - Present
Ongoing freelance photo retouching for fashion, beauty, and commercial imagery. Provides creative and e-commerce retouching touchpoints for campaigns and high-volume workflows, including colour correction and grading, editorial and campaign imagery finishing, e-commerce retouch workflow management, file preparation for print and digital, quality control, and collaboration with art directors to maintain brand consistency.
Senior Retoucher at QVC London
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
E-commerce and campaign retouching responsibilities for high-quality imagery. Supported end-to-end image finishing across digital delivery, maintaining consistent colour and brand image refinement.
Head of Retouching at Laura Ashley
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021
Managed the retouching department and worked directly with clients and internal teams. Coordinated retouching, quality control, and workflow; ensured brand visual consistency across campaigns; retouched multiple photographers’ images; produced and developed stock photography; managed post-production workflow.
Senior Retoucher & Post Production Coordinator at Prolema Ashley
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Managed post-production coordination for lifestyle and campaign imagery. Worked directly with clients and internal teams, handled retouching and quality control, and coordinated workflows. Ensured consistent output across departments and maintained brand visual consistency across campaigns. Edited and developed lifestyle and campaign imagery for high-volume commercial e-commerce workflow.
Senior Retoucher & Post Production Coordinator at PROLITE LITTLE
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021
Senior retoucher and post-production coordinator role supporting lifestyle and campaign imagery. Managed retouching department deliverables, worked directly with clients and internal teams, maintained consistency and quality control, coordinated workflow, and ensured brand visual consistency across campaigns. Also edited and developed lifestyle and campaign imagery and managed post-production workflow in high-volume e-commerce production.
Senior Retoucher & Post Production Coordinator at Rapid Eye Media
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2020
Lifestyle & campaign retouching and post-production coordination. Worked with clients and internal teams, ensuring consistent output across departments, coordinating retouching and QC, and managing editing/development of lifestyle and campaign imagery for high-volume e-commerce workflows.
Head of Retouching at QVC London
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2020
Worked across e-commerce and campaign imagery retouching and post-production delivery. Maintained colour consistency and brand image refinement for high-volume workflows and ensured quality control from capture through finishing.
Head of Retouching at Rapid Eye Media
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Head of retouching / developer / photographer role. Retouching for multiple photographers and stock imagery production. Managed post-production workflow and supported high-volume commercial retouching operations.
Head of Retouching / Developer / Photographer at Rapid Eye Media
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Responsible for retouching across multiple photographers and managing post-production workflow. Produced and developed stock photography, managed post-production workflow, and supported fast turnaround delivery for retouching tasks across commercial outputs.
Production Artist at Repro
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Retouching for multiple photographers and stock photography production. Developed and maintained post-production workflows to support image output quality and turnaround.
Production Artist at Yuri Arcurus
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Retouching for multiple photographers and stock imagery, including producing and developing stock images. Managed post-production workflow to support ongoing production demands.
Production Retoucher at Yuri A Rcus
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Retouching for multiple photographers, producing and developing stock photography, and managing post-production workflow.
Production Artist / Retoucher at Repro
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Retouching for multiple photographers with responsibility for producing and developing stock photography. Managed post-production workflow to support commercial production timelines.

Education

Advanced Certificate in Professional Photography at Veg a School
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016
Advanced Certificate in Professional Photography at Veg a School
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016
Advanced Certificate in Professional Photography at Veg a School
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016

Qualifications

Senior Photo Retoucher
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016
Advanced Certificate in Professional Photography
January 1, 2014 - July 28, 2026
Advanced Certificate in Professional Photography
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Retail, Consumer Goods