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Perth, Australia
$45 USD per hour
TOP-RATED GRAPHIC DESIGNER | BRAND IDENTITY | LOGO DESIGN | POWERPOINT & PITCH DECK EXPERT | BROCHURE | CANVA | MARKETING MATERIALS Looking for a professional graphic designer who can transform your ideas into powerful visual designs that attract customers, strengthen your brand, and help your business grow? I'm Hafiz Talha, a Top-Rated Graphic Designer with 10+ years of professional experience and 1200+ successfully completed projects for startups, entrepreneurs, agencies, and established businesses worldwide. I specialize in creating modern, high-impact designs that not only look great but also communicate your message effectively and help you stand out from the competition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MY EXPERTISE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Logo Design ✔ Brand Identity Design ✔ Corporate Identity ✔ Brand Guidelines ✔ Rebranding ✔ Business Card Design ✔ Stationery Design ✔ Brochure Design ✔ Flyer Design ✔ Poster Design ✔ Catalog Design ✔ Company Profile Design ✔ Annual Report Design ✔ White Paper Design ✔ Magazine Layout Design ✔ PowerPoint Presentation Design ✔ Pitch Deck Design ✔ Investor Deck Design ✔ Sales Presentation Design ✔ Google Slides Design ✔ Canva Presentation Design ✔ Corporate Presentation Design ✔ Social Media Design ✔ Facebook Ads Design ✔ Instagram Posts ✔ LinkedIn Banners ✔ YouTube Thumbnails ✔ Ad Creative Design ✔ Digital Marketing Graphics ✔ Packaging Design ✔ Product Label Design ✔ Product Packaging Design ✔ Menu Design ✔ Infographic Design ✔ eBook Design ✔ Lead Magnet Design ✔ Marketing Materials ✔ Photoshop Editing ✔ Photo Retouching ✔ Background Removal ✔ Image Enhancement ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ INDUSTRIES I SERVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Startups • SaaS Companies • Real Estate • Healthcare • Technology • E-commerce • Restaurants • Education • Finance • Corporate Businesses • Agencies • Small Businesses ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY CLIENTS HIRE ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ 1200+ Successfully Completed Projects ✔ Preferred Freelancer Status ✔ 5-Star Client Satisfaction ✔ Professional Communication ✔ Fast Turnaround Time ✔ Creative & Modern Designs ✔ 100% Original Work ✔ Print-Ready & Web-Ready Files ✔ Source Files Included ✔ Multiple Design Concepts ✔ Unlimited Revisions Until Satisfaction ✔ Long-Term Support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TOOLS & SOFTWARE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Acrobat Canva Figma Microsoft PowerPoint Google Slides Adobe Creative Cloud Whether you need a professional logo, complete brand identity, pitch deck, company profile, brochure, social media graphics, packaging design, or marketing materials, I am here to help you achieve outstanding results. Let's discuss your project and create something exceptional for your brand.

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North Kellyville, Australia
$20 USD per hour
I’m an Australian-based Visual Designer, Illustrator, and Web Developer with experience delivering high-quality creative and technical solutions for businesses and brands. I specialize in graphic design and branding, including logo design, corporate identity, illustration, character and children’s book artwork, book covers, packaging, brochures, catalogs, social media creatives, infographics, and presentation design using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and XD. I also create motion graphics and 3D visuals, including animations and marketing content using After Effects and Blender. On the technical side, I provide web design and development, including frontend (HTML, JavaScript), PHP-based development, and full website builds. I work with WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, and Squarespace, including custom design, templates, and complete site development. For eCommerce, I handle Shopify and WooCommerce solutions, including store setup, customization, templates, and shopping cart integration. I also offer website optimization, audits, analytics, management, and hosting support, along with web scraping and data handling for structured data tasks. Additionally, I support brands with social media management and post design to maintain a consistent digital presence. I focus on delivering clean design, strong functionality, and performance-driven results aligned with your business goals. Let’s work together to build something impactful.

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Mudgee, Australia
$40 USD per hour
Hello! I am a self-employed 3d modeler and animator with almost 10 yrs of experience (7 years on Freelancer). My background is largely carpentry so I enjoy creating construction-related visualisations, however am not limited to that. Bringing products &/or concepts to life through modelling &/or explainer videos are additional fields of my expertise. Working closely with people to achieve the best result at a fair price is always my goal. I look forward to the opportunity of working with you. Cheers, Greg

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Sydenham, Australia
$40 USD per hour
═════════════════════════════════════════════ LEON FRESH / REN Full-Stack Developer + UI/UX Designer · Sydney · 10+ Years Next.js · React · WordPress · AI Web Apps · SaaS · UI/UX ═════════════════════════════════════════════ One hire. Premium design and the engineering to ship it. Most web projects need two people: a designer to create a polished user experience, and a developer to build it properly. I do both. I help businesses, startups, and founders turn ideas into beautiful, fast, production-ready websites and web apps without the usual handoff problems, miscommunication, or doubled cost. I can help you with: ✅ Custom websites and landing pages ✅ Web apps, dashboards, portals, and SaaS products ✅ Next.js, React, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS3, PHP, Python ✅ WordPress design, development, fixes, and customisation ✅ AI tools, GPT/LLM integrations, automation, and Python workflows ✅ UI/UX design in Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign ✅ Interactive experiences using Unity3D and C# Trusted by: BMW · Maserati · Sony · CeBIT Australia What makes me different: I care about both how your project looks and how it works. You get clean design, clear communication, responsive development, and a final product that feels professional instead of patched together. I also bring a strong creative and strategic background, with 35k+ YouTube subscribers and 18M+ views, giving me a real understanding of attention, content, and user engagement. If you need a developer who can think like a designer, build like an engineer, and communicate clearly from start to finish, I’d be happy to help. Let’s build something polished, functional, and ready to launch.

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BANKSTOWN, Australia
$25 USD per hour
Creative, Reliable, and Results-Driven Graphic Designer | Expert in Photo Retouching, Restoration, and Visual Storytelling With a passion for transforming concepts into engaging visuals, I bring precision, creativity, and timely delivery to every project. My expertise lies in crafting visually stunning work, whether breathing new life into photos or designing brand assets that stand out. What I Can Do for You: * Photo Retouching & Restoration: Seamlessly enhance, colorize, and restore images to look naturally perfected, preserving every detail. * Logo Design & Branding: Develop distinctive logos and brand materials that capture your unique style and make a lasting impression. * Illustration & Marketing Collateral: From digital illustrations to eye-catching marketing pieces, I create assets tailored to elevate your brand. With fast communication and a commitment to high quality, I'm ready to bring your vision to life. Let’s create something exceptional together!

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Berala, Australia
$45 USD per hour
G’day! This is Hamid A. Welcome to FinTechDesign (Australia-Based) – a creative design and art studio specializing in branding, graphic design, illustration, and visual solutions. We help businesses of all types and sizes, from startups to established companies, create professional and impactful designs that strengthen their brand through creative solutions in branding, graphic design, illustration, and photo editing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Our Services 🎨 Graphic Design & Branding • Logo Design • Brand Identity Design • Social Media Designs • Advertisement Design • Flyer & Brochure Design • Business Cards & Stationery • Packaging & Label Design • Pitch Deck Design • Marketing Materials • Book Covers • Banners & Posters • Presentation Design (PowerPoint / Canva / Figma) • Google Slides Design • UI/UX Design (Figma, Canva) 🖌️ Illustration & Digital Artwork • Children’s Book Illustrations • Character Design • Concept Art • Portrait Illustration • Anime-Style Artwork • Comic Design • Digital Painting • Vector Illustrations • Mascot Design • Sticker & Icon Design • Custom Illustrations for Brands, Games & Products 📸 Photoshop & Photo Editing • Photo Retouching • Background Removal • Product Editing • Portrait Enhancement • Photo Manipulation • Color Correction • Object Removal • Photo Restoration • Real Estate Photo Editing • Mockup Creation • Advertising Visuals • Social Media Creatives Tools We Use: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Canva, & Figma. We focus on delivering creative, high-quality designs with clear communication and reliable service to help your brand stand out. Let’s bring your vision to life!

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Coolaroo, Australia
$60 USD per hour
G'day! I’m a passionate graphic designer from Australia with over 6 years of experience and more than 200 projects under my belt, working with both local and international clients. I love turning ideas into eye-catching designs, whether it’s logos, social media graphics, branding, or marketing materials. I’m excited to kick off my freelancing journey here and look forward to working with awesome clients. I’m all about creativity, quality, and making sure you get exactly what you’re after. Let’s create something great together!

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Aitkenvale, Australia
$20 USD per hour
Hy.. I am Graphics Designer. I can design logo, banner, stationary and UI in the Photoshop and illustrator. I can provide, #100% satisfaction #Believe in work more than money #Less time requirement more work #Time to time delivery Skills: #Adobe Illustrator #Adobe Photoshop #Graphic Design #Web Design #Logo Design #Stationary Design #App Design

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Croydon North, Australia
$50 USD per hour
Proficient in painting/drawing, concept development and design. Skilled in Photoshop, Indesign, SketchUp and 2D and 3D modeling.
A photo retoucher is a digital imaging specialist who edits photographs to correct flaws, enhance detail, adjust color, and prepare images for commercial, editorial, or personal use. Hiring a skilled photo retoucher transforms raw camera files into polished visuals ready for print campaigns, e-commerce listings, magazines, portfolios, and social media. Whether you need beauty retouching, product clean-up, or large-volume batch editing, a freelance photo retoucher delivers the technical precision and aesthetic judgment that automated filters cannot match.
Photo retouching covers a wide range of post-production work, from subtle skin smoothing on portraits to complex compositing and background replacement. A professional retoucher takes RAW or high-resolution files and refines them pixel by pixel, balancing realism with the visual standard the brief demands. The output is typically a print-ready or web-optimized file delivered in formats such as TIFF, PSD, JPEG, or PNG.
Common deliverables include high-end beauty and portrait retouching, fashion editorial finishing, e-commerce product clean-up, real estate image enhancement, jewelry retouching, restoration of damaged or vintage photos, and color grading across image sets. Retouchers also handle ghost mannequin edits, shadow creation, sky replacement, and bulk processing for catalog work where consistency across hundreds of images is essential.
Skilled photo retouchers work primarily in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom, the industry-standard applications for pixel-level editing and color management. Many also use Capture One for tethered shoots and color grading, and specialist plugins such as Imagenomic Portraiture, Frequency Separation actions, and Retouch4me for high-volume beauty work. Affinity Photo and GIMP are alternatives some freelancers offer for specific workflows.
Expect a competent retoucher to be fluent in techniques such as:
Photo retouching is essential across many sectors. E-commerce brands and online marketplaces hire retouchers to produce clean, consistent product imagery that meets platform specifications. Fashion labels, modeling agencies, and beauty brands rely on high-end retouching for editorial and campaign work. Wedding and portrait photographers outsource finishing to keep up with seasonal volume.
Other common use cases include real estate listing enhancement, automotive and jewelry advertising, food photography for menus and packaging, restoration of family archives, and headshot polishing for corporate websites and LinkedIn profiles. Magazines, ad agencies, and publishers also commission specialist retouching for covers, layouts, and brand campaigns.
The best signal of skill is a portfolio that includes before-and-after examples. This shows you exactly what the retoucher contributed to the final image rather than the photographer's original work. Look for natural-looking skin that retains pore detail, clean cut-outs without halos or jagged edges, accurate color across skin tones, and consistency across image sets.
Strong candidates will demonstrate experience in the specific genre you need — beauty, product, real estate, and restoration each demand different techniques. Check for fluency in Photoshop and Lightroom, familiarity with color profiles such as sRGB and Adobe RGB, and awareness of file format requirements for print versus web.
Useful interview questions to ask shortlisted candidates:
Freelancer.com gives you access to a global pool of photo retouching specialists covering every genre, from high-end beauty work to bulk catalog editing. You can review portfolios, ratings, and verified reviews before you shortlist, and you set your own budget so freelancers compete with bids that match your scope. Whether you need one image polished overnight or a recurring partner for ongoing campaigns, you will find experienced freelancers on Freelancer.com ready to start. The platform's milestone payments and chat tools make it straightforward to collaborate, request revisions, and release funds only when you are satisfied.
Ready to get your images polished by a professional?
Hiring a photo retoucher is straightforward when you give the freelancer enough context to quote accurately. The clearer your brief about image volume, retouching style, and end use, the more relevant the bids you will receive. Follow these three steps to find and award the right specialist.
Your project brief is the single biggest factor in bid quality. A vague request attracts generic proposals, while a precise brief filters for retouchers whose style and experience match your job. Head to the
Bids are short proposals, not just price quotes. A strong bid shows the retoucher has read your brief, understands the technique required, and has a realistic plan for delivery. Use this stage to read each proposal carefully and shortlist freelancers whose approach matches your expectations.
Combine the proposal quality with profile evidence to make your final choice. A retoucher's portfolio and review history reveal whether they deliver consistent quality across many projects, not just one standout image. Pay particular attention to before-and-after work, since it shows their actual contribution.
A single high-end beauty or product retouch typically takes a few hours to a full day per image, while batch e-commerce work can be processed at dozens of images per day. Turnaround depends on complexity, file resolution, and the number of revision rounds you expect.
Photo editing usually refers to broader adjustments like cropping, exposure, and color correction applied across a set, often in Lightroom. Photo retouching is the detailed pixel-level work in Photoshop — removing blemishes, reshaping, compositing, and refining specific areas of the image.
Send the highest-quality originals you have, ideally RAW files or unedited high-resolution TIFF or JPEG files. Provide reference images, brand guidelines, and any specific instructions on style, color, and final delivery format so the retoucher can match your expectations on the first pass.
Yes. Many retouchers specialize in photo restoration, repairing tears, scratches, fading, and water damage, and can also colorize black-and-white images. Look specifically for restoration samples in the freelancer's portfolio if this is your project type.
Hire a photo retoucher when the work involves enhancing or correcting existing photographs. Hire a graphic designer when you need layout, typography, or composite creative built from scratch — though many freelancers offer both skill sets.

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