jewelry Photography

[colorexpertsbd]

Originally Posted by premmahtani

Hello there,

As a jewellery retailer, I would like to take pictures that really sell my jewellery to a customer.

Just when I thought I had the technique down, I get sent this from a guy who wants to be paid to produce the following images (see below)

If anyone could please have a look and them and advise a step by step guide to get the same effect please?

I've tried using curves but the contrast doesnt look like right... and using levels burns out the highlights and makes the shadows too black rather than reflected.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/premmahtani/2189893929/ (Before)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/premmahtani/2190682024/ (After)


Help please!

I have attached a sample of my work with your quote. I think you are wanting something like this.

regards,
http://www.colorexpertsbd.com/free_trial.html

[philbach]

I took the original ring and used a curves adjustment layer to brighten it and add contrast.
I used a hsl adjustment layer to desaturate the ring.
I then selected the ring and copied that selection to a new layer.
Under that ring I placed a blank layer and filled it with white
I then copied the isolated ring layer and put that on a separate layer.
To the ring layer below I flipped it horizontally and decreased its opacity to 36%.
On the very top I added some sparkles. I didn't have the right sparkles but you get the idea.

[MatthewMarshall]

colorexpertsbd she is asking how its done not if you can do stuf like that. I looked at your site and it says you do paths, nice looking website . But i was looking at the sample you provided, the stones look week and dull maybe try enhancing them a bit. thought i would let you know, sometimes we take so long to edit and forget to enhance small things like that. hope this helps you a bit get better pictures

[DiamondsDr47]

Matthew you right just don’t feel to solicit the forum with another thread on jewelry topic...Thanks SnakeSuspenders, actually we have choose another one from the shoot for printing, less intense and different background and angle for some certain reasons.
Andrew i didn’t use any of that, more simple old school Plexiglas. As of retouching were pretty minimal dust particles in foreground a few on the ring, and a fixed inside a bit and changed tonality of the shadow on top of the mounting, other than that it was strait out of camera , then ACR (some tweaks). Also about that blue in the diamonds it seems so popular around, usually it's different tonality in real diamonds, but it's very pronounce in CZ(cubic zirconia).
Best regards,
Edgar
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