How We Remove Dust and Scratches from Jewelry Photos (Without Making Them Look Fake)
Jewelry is small, shiny, and it really shows dust in photos. It is macro phottogprahy so also the dust is magnified and shot really close. Same goes for scratches on jewerly. A micro scratch on shank can be visible under macro photography immediately. It can be thinner then a hair and it will show up. […]
How Retouching Quality Affects Jewelry Return Rates
If you sell jewelry online, your product photo is what a customer sees before the jewelry box arrives. Everything else, the description, the reviews, the price, is secondary to what the customer sees on screen. And what they see is almost always the result of retouching, whether they realize it or not. The numbers back […]
Jewelry retouching 15-20 years ago – you are going to be shocked
When I tell people I started retouching jewelry 23 years ago, they usually imagine a glamorous studio setup. The reality? It was a battlefield. If we look back to about 15 years ago, the jewelry photography we received from clients wasn’t just challenging—it was bad. Really bad. Back then, people simply did not know how […]
This jewelry piece came out amazingly!
I am writing this post to show you how our jewelry retouching process works. This piece took a long time, as every part of the metal needed to be retouched. I had to remove all deformities, bad reflections, harsh shadows, and imperfections. The client gave me this picture without any specific instructions; they just asked […]