Please Help :(

[Janice Ong]

I've attached some raw pics and final effect of jewelleries that I need serious touch up with. Can anyone please show me the way to get to this effect........ please ????????

[NancyJ]

In all honesty - I would reshoot, on a plain surface and background to minimise the reflections in the jewellry and get a sharp focus, particularly on the gems. Other than that the only chose I see for them is completley repainting the bands and an replacing the gems from stock photography

[Janice Ong]

How do I repaint the band so it looks solid like the final pic ??

Can you pleae show me the steps ?

[Robt]

I'm not much into this kind of shooting but reshooting is the best solution. These are simply poorly done.

The problem is these are not the shots you wanted to buy, they just won't do what you need if the product shown is what you want to sell.

[Janice Ong]

I can't re shoot the photo.. i just want to know how to get the final effect .. thats all.

I need to know the steps to achieve that kind of catalogue look from a raw jewellery.

[NancyJ]

The catalogue look is acheived firstly by starting with a good quality photograph, in sharp focus with as few recognisable reflections as possible - from your photo it is impossible to tell what the jewellry should look like. There are at least 2 if not 3 metal finishes on that item, without actually seeing it, we cant do an accurate retouch

[Kraellin]

just a quick note for the moment. ostensibly, these two objects are the same ring. however, when i mirror the one on the left and rotate it to match up alignment with the other on the right, they really dont look like the same ring. there are markings either missing on one or added on the other. so, i have to agree with everyone above about reshooting being the best solution.

but, you say you cant reshoot, so ok. what i did was work on the one on the left. i took it as if there was no other ring in the picture. this used mostly push, clone, smudge, and the lighten/darken tool. it is also HIGHLY speculative. i tried to use what data was in the image alone as a guide and just guessed on how the ring might look. i did NOT use the other image of the ring as a guide at all. if i had, it would have looked significantly different.

craig

[Janice Ong]

Thanks craig.. could you be more specific how you did it.. i love it..!

[bart_hickman]

Originally Posted by Janice Ong

How do I repaint the band so it looks solid like the final pic ??

Can you pleae show me the steps ?

I need some clarification on what you're asking--there are several differences between the photos.

The first photo shows two "C"-shaped items that also appear to be hollow. The second photo shows an "O"-shaped item which looks solid. Do you...

...want to make the C-shaped items look O-shaped?
...want to make the hollowness on the C-shaped items to go away so it looks solid?
...want to paint the gold items so they look half-silver?

Any of these three should be doable. I think I know what you want, but I just want to be sure.

Bart

[Janice Ong]

Hello.. i want the 'c' pics to look as the 'o' picture. You can see 'c' is freshly digitaly taken where else 'o' is done nice with photoshop. I'm trying to get the 'c' to look as solid as 'o' (its just an example on what i want )

thanks anyway

[bart_hickman]

I started by drawing a curve along the top edge of the rear rim. After drawing the curve, you can carefully shift it around until it lies perfectly along the rim. Then I created a selection from this curve (set the line width to 3 pixels). I have Paintshop Pro, so I created a picture tube from this selection and then streaked that downward. Photoshop doesn't have picture tubes, so instead you could also have created a brush from this selection, and then use that as a push brush to push the rim downward thus creating the new back wall of the ring. Either one works--I like the picture tube only because I can put it on it's own layer. The first attachment shows how it looks after this.

After that, I basically did the following:
1. Duplicate the original and use the background eraser to extract the front of the ring.
2. Put the front of the ring on the top layer (thus covering the newly created rear wall.
3. Do some various touch up to the back wall to make it look not so perfect--warp brush, mesh warp, light smudging, etc... I used the mesh warp to give the inner wall a slight crowning. Used some smudging and erasing to blend the back wall to the top of the ring.
4. Grab a copy of the right top rim and mirror it and put it on top of the left gap.
5. Clone out the seams on the top rim.
6. For fun, added a number "stamped" on the inner wall. Did another quickie warp brush on the real wall around the number to make it look like it was stamped. I also did some slight random warping of the number itself. The number is multiply blended into the image.
7. Little bit of cloning near the rim edges on the far left and right to clean it up a bit.

I'll leave it to you to fix the exposure either by retouching or reshooting.

Bart

[Janice Ong]

hello bart, I want to retouch the surface of 'c' to look like 'o'..not the shape

[bart_hickman]

No problem. I had originally picture tubed all the way across, including the gap area, so this took 5 seconds--I just turned off two layers.

But the ideas are the same.

Bart

[Janice Ong]

lol..thats not what i mean

[Janice Ong]

ok.. let me make myself clear again. I want to know how to do this ?? What are the STEPS, eg.. blur, gaussion blur, brus..etc to achieve this.

sighhhhhhhhh................