# Photoshop/Illustrator Specialist — Product Listing Images at Volume (Ongoing)

## What we do

We're Lizton Sign Shop, a custom metal sign manufacturer in Indiana. We print on

aluminum composite panel and ship made-to-order, and we're a licensed GM/Corvette

partner. 8,500+ active Etsy listings, 39,000+ reviews at a 4.93 average, plus

Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Wayfair and our own Shopify stores.

We have a large backlog of finished designs and more arriving every week. Every one

of them needs a set of listing images before it can go live, and that step is our

bottleneck. That's this job.

## The work

You receive one flat piece of artwork per design. You deliver a finished image set,

named to our convention, ready to hand to our listing team.

**Five design-specific images:**

1. Sign on a dark rustic wood plank wall — this is the search thumbnail, so it matters most

2. A lifestyle scene, chosen from a library by category (coastal, farmhouse, garage, bar, cabin, kitchen)

3. Flat on white

4. Angled 3D view, left

5. Angled 3D view, right

**Two more we want to start doing per design:**

6. A multi-size comparison chart showing the real artwork at five sizes, to scale, in a room

7. A corner-detail close-up showing panel thickness and the aluminum/polyethylene/aluminum

layers, with the real artwork visible on the face

Four additional images are fixed templates that never change — you won't touch those.

Our signs have rounded corners, a printed inset border line, two mounting holes

centered top and bottom, and a 1/8″ panel. Mockups need to reflect that accurately:

correct corner radius, visible aluminum edge, artwork that follows the panel surface

rather than sitting flat on it.

We have finished examples of every image type. We'll send them. Matching them

consistently is the job — this is production work, not a redesign.

## Build the system while you're at it

We're paying per design, so speed is in your interest as much as ours. Build

whatever gets you there: smart-object PSDs, Photoshop actions, JSX scripting, a

mockup render API, batch processing. We'd rather you spend the first week building

tooling and then move fast than grind through them by hand.

Two conditions: the templates and scripts are delivered to us as work product and

we own them, and you leave behind enough documentation that our team can run them.

Some incoming artwork is AI-generated at roughly 1000×1500 pixels — fine for listing

images, nowhere near print resolution. If you have opinions about upscaling or vector

rebuild, we want to hear them.

## What you need

Real Photoshop smart-object skill — displacement maps, perspective warps, lighting

layers off the base photograph. Not stock templates with art dropped on top.

Illustrator for artwork prep. Photoshop scripting is a strong plus. Product

photography retouching background is a plus.

You do **not** need marketplace or SEO knowledge. That's a separate hire.

## How to apply

Skip the cover letter. Instead:

1. **Show us a smart-object mockup PSD you built yourself.** A screenshot of the

layer stack, or a short screen recording of you swapping the art. This is the

filter, and most applicants can't do this part.

2. Tell us how you'd approach the corner-detail shot specifically. It's the hardest

one and it tells us the most about you.

3. Quote a **per-design rate** for the full seven-image set, and tell us roughly how

many designs a week you could deliver once your tooling is set up.

## Terms

We'll start with a **paid test** — one design, full set. Fixed fee, quoted by you.

If it matches our existing images, this becomes steady ongoing work with hundreds of

designs waiting.

Tell us your time zone and your weekly availability.