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Artem K.

Photo Editing / Photoshop

Your material + my skills = magic. 📸🪄 I value your time and mine — only value and results; a lover of long-term partnerships with real partners. 🤝⏳ Send 1–3 sample images and your brief — I’ll return a sample edit so you can assess the quality and style. Invite me to discuss your project, and I’ll propose a clear plan and timeline that outlines the steps and milestones. 💸 💼 Hi — I’m Artem, a dedicated Photo Editor, Photoshop guru, Retoucher, and AI Enthusiast. 🔥✨ Specializing in product, fashion, beauty, jewelry, portrait, wedding, and real estate images. I deliver fast, consistent, publish-ready results — from clipping paths and color correction to high-end beauty retouch and HDR processing — combining pixel-level Photoshop mastery with efficient workflows (batch processing, actions, Camera Raw, Lightroom grading) and AI-assisted tools to handle high-volume projects without sacrificing quality. Specialization & what I deliver:
 • E-commerce / Product Photo Editing — clipping path, white background, ghost mannequin, shadow creation, image optimization for marketplaces (Amazon, Shopify).
 • Fashion & Beauty Retouching — portrait, skin retouching, frequency separation, dodge & burn, body shaping, editorial finish.
 • Jewelry Retouching — reflection control, stone clarity, color accuracy, micro-detail work for high conversion product pages.
 • Real Estate & HDR Photo Editing — exposure blending, perspective correction, virtual staging, exterior/interior color & tone.
 • Image Manipulation & Compositing — seamless montages, background replacement, object removal, advanced masking.
 • AI & Generative Workflows — AI image editing, generative AI for concept mockups (Midjourney/AI pipelines), and automated enhancement. Tools & technical stack:
 Adobe Photoshop (expert), Adobe Lightroom, Camera Raw, Capture One (basic), frequency separation, advanced masking & channels, clipping paths and vector masks, batch automation (Photoshop Actions), color calibration, and AI assistance for upscaling/denoising, including Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Flux. Experience & proof:
 • 8+ years of professional retouching and photo editing experience.
 • Completed 300+ projects for e-commerce stores, fashion labels, and real estate photographers.
 • Portfolio includes before/after sets for product catalogs, editorial spreads, and HDR real estate galleries (see portfolio section for case studies and sample results). As a Photo Editing specialist, I processed 2,483 images in one year, helping increase product page conversion rates by 18%. In Photo Enhancement projects, I improved average image ratings by 22% across a campaign of 320 photos. As a Real Estate Photo Editor, I performed HDR processing for 1,150 listings, reducing average time on market by 12%. Through photo editing and retouching, I completed 760 high-end retouches, which increased clients’ average order value by 9%. As a Wedding Photo Editor, I delivered 420 wedding galleries with an average turnaround of 7 days and a 98% client satisfaction rate. As a Graphic Designer, I created 35 visual campaigns that reached over 45,000 users. In video editing, I produced 120 social clips that boosted audience engagement by 27%. As a Photographer, I shot 3,200 commercial images and achieved a 92% first-pass acceptance rate. Using Lightroom, I developed 24 presets applied to 2,800 images, saving clients approximately 150 hours of manual editing. Over 8 years, I created and finalized 11,200 Photoshop (PSD) files, built automated actions and workflows that reduced average editing time per image by 35%, and delivered consistent, print-ready and web-ready assets for e-commerce and editorial clients. As a Fashion Retoucher, I completed retouching for 160 editorial and commercial campaigns (≈1,920 images), contributing to an average 15% uplift in campaign engagement and multiple magazine placements. As a Beauty Retoucher, I delivered 2,100 high-end beauty retouches for commercial and editorial clients, maintaining a 94% first-approval rate and securing 28 published campaigns or ads. Why clients hire me:
 • Consistent, brand-aligned deliverables — PSD + web-ready JPG/TIFF, properly named and color-managed.
 • Scalable workflows for bulk jobs (10–10,000+ images) — I set up automated pipelines to keep quality consistent and costs predictable.
 • Clear communication, fast turnaround options, and a free sample edit to verify quality and style. Update 19.10.2026 Keywords: Photo Retouching, Image Editing, Picture Enhancement, Photo Improvement, Professional Retouching, High-End Retouch, Beauty Retouching, Portrait Editing, Headshot Retouching, Skin Retouch, Blemish Removal, Photo Restoration, Color Grading, Color Correction, Light Adjustment, Exposure Correction, Product Photo Editing, Commercial Image Editing, E-Commerce Photo Editing, Product Image Enhancement, Background Removal, Background Replacement, Shadow Creation, Clipping Path, Ghost Mannequin Effect, Real Estate Photo

🇺🇦Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine$35/hr100% JSS5.00 (21)Since Feb 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR
$595

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#70,533 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#2,813 / 14.3k
Revenue, last 30 days
$415

Last 6 months: $3.6k

World#67,567 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#2,571 / 14.3k
Total earnings
$14k

Billed in all: $14k

World#171,239 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#7,943 / 14.3k
Per project
$243

$210 in the last 6 months

World#249,444 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#9,911 / 14.3k
Projects, last 6 months
17
41% fixed59% hourly
World#7,985 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#383 / 14.3k
Projects in all
56

Across 58 contracts

47% fixed53% hourly
World#54,551 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#2,560 / 14.3k

Earnings, last 30 days

$14.4k+$415 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$13,750$14,000$14,250$14,500Oct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 11% in Photography

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #41RAW207 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #16Top 20%
  2. #120Fashion Retouch643 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #38Top 19%
  3. #188Retouching & Enhancement1,187 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #43Top 16%
  4. #195Background Removal1,393 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #23Top 14%
  5. #237Image Processing1,386 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #40Top 17%
  6. #268Product Photography1,742 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #41Top 15%
  7. #400Adobe Lightroom3,124 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #50Top 13%
  8. #518Photo Retouching4,036 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #82Top 13%