Retouching Jewelry Challenge

[palms1]

Lonnie obvious once you are shown ! !

Palms

[vchiline]

I'm blinded by technique... argh.... nice one Lonnie!

[dkcoats]

As to the question of white vs. yellow gold: There's an erroneous assumption being made here, I think. One of the things that makes gold Gold is that it doesn't tarnish. The mottling on the metal bits is, unless I'm very much mistaken, tarnish. Which makes the element in question Ag, not Au.

dc

[Daviskw]

Lonnie you are right... hard to believe I did not see it .. oh well.

As for the white or gold... It does seem to pick up gold color when color corrected... but it is hard to tell.

I liked the dark background as well

Butch

[vchiline]

Strangely, when I shoot 10K gold items for clients, they appear to tarnish (hence, look like crap)... I don't know if it's because the gold is flaking off, etc... but only 14K and above look good under the lens.

[dkcoats]

Hats of to LonK for correctly identifying the creature.
I used levels, curves (selectively in some cases), median, smudging and selective color to get rid of the tarnish, sharpening, lots of burning & dodging. I think that's about all of it.

dc