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Natalja KudrikaNK

Natalja Kudrika

Creative and Ecom Seasoned Retoucher

€347/day
Manchester, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Natalja

I’m Natalja, a professional photo retoucher with 10+ years of experience in high-end editing for portrait, wedding, fashion, beauty, and e-commerce photography. I collaborate with photographers, brands, and studios to deliver clean, natural, and professional retouching that enhances images while preserving authenticity.

I’ve worked with brands including Nokia, Johnson & Johnson, Selfridges, SimplyBe, The Open University, HotelTonight, Tastily, and Club L London, producing print-ready and web-optimized visuals.

Services:

Portrait & Beauty: skin cleanup, blemish removal, dodge & burn, frequency separation, realistic shaping, tone matching

Wedding: exposure correction, lighting balance, skin tone adjustment, background cleanup, color grading, cohesive gallery enhancement

E-Commerce & Product: ghost mannequin, color correction/matching, dust and wrinkle removal, background replacement

Commercial & Editorial: lighting/tone correction, advanced cleanup, natural color grading

Color Correction & Grading: precise tone and lighting adjustments to match brand or creative style

Lightroom Presets: custom XMP/DNG presets for consistent aesthetics

AI-Assisted Editing: object/background removal, AI image generation, creative composites

Why Hire Me:

10+ years of professional retouching experience

Expert in Photoshop, Lightroom, and AI editing tools

Fast, reliable, and detail-oriented workflow

Consistently high-quality results tailored to your project

I help brands and creatives produce flawless, consistent, and visually compelling images that stand out.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Manchester (up to 50km)

Experience

  • House of Glow Up
    Freelance Retoucher
    October 2025 - Today (8 months)
    Manchester, United Kingdom
    • Create polished, brand-aligned imagery for portrait and boudoir photography
    • Deliver high-quality visual content with attention to skin tones, colour harmony, and detail
    • Work directly with photographers to interpret briefs and creative direction
    colour correction Adobe Photoshop Moodboard
  • Avid Games
    Digital Aritst
    March 2024 - August 2025 (1 year and 5 months)
    • Responsible for concepting and execution of visuals for upcoming title including game design characters, overal visual theme and UI elements
    • Complex digital compositing involving up to 10 images
    Adobe Photoshop digital compositing
  • Prime Presets Shop
    Freelance Retoucher, Preset Creator
    September 2022 - Today (3 years and 9 months)
    • Freelance Retoucher - working with local food photographer on technical retouch, cipd.org website images update.
    • Prime Presets Shop - Professional Lightroom Presets - owner of a fun little project to test out trends - R&D of presets, image search, copy writing, social media etc.
    Adobe Lightroom Photography Photo retouching

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Education

  • The Future of Fashion and Media
    Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design
    2022
    The Future of Fashion and Media
  • Bachelor of Science
    The Open University
    2017
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Design and Innovations

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