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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 1 day Toptal's roles stay open a median of 30 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Toptal's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Toptal
- low 0 stale, 0 reposted of 27 open
- Hiring momentum
- 46 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Toptal's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Toptal.
About this role
The role involves working as a professional Photoshop artist to complete client-style briefs while your editing process is recorded. You'll be expected to deliver layered PSD files and final outputs based on specific creative tasks across various disciplines, including matte painting and portrait retouching. This position emphasizes the importance of capturing the nuances of your editing process for research purposes, with work published openly under a Creative Commons license.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Toptal as an employer.
What you need
- Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) with a licensed copy of Photoshop
- Demonstrable professional portfolio in at least one of the six categories: matte painting, campaign compositing, game & UI assets, print & packaging pre-press, portrait retouching, e-commerce retouching
- Ability to work independently and at your own pace
- Comfortable publishing work openly under CC-BY-4.0
- No use of generative AI or other software besides Photoshop
Worth weighing
- Extremely urgent role with immediate start required
- Work is recorded and published openly, which may impact privacy or proprietary concerns
- Individual contributor role, no team collaboration allowed
- Tasks are time-limited to 1-3 hours, which may affect work-life balance
Summarised from Toptal's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Toptal on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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