What is jewelry retouching

What is jewelry retouching

In the era of film cameras melkopredmetnaya photography, including shooting and jewelry , is a rather difficult job as complicated by the fact that its processing ( retouching) was limited only to manual removal of large defects on the film or print processing paper with a pencil and other tools of the artist.

All this led to the fact that the photographer had to pay a huge amount of time in order to make the required amount of good pictures with the right angle and with optimal lighting . Digital age has simplified the job as photo artists and craftsmen work providing services jewelry retouching , as modern photo editors can significantly improve the quality of photos , even with significant defects.
The main objective of jewelry retouching is to create a spectacular and memorable image of a photograph of the main subject - jewelry.

As jewelry making retouching

Professional jewelry retouching involves the use of complex tools that allows you to make photos available on the jewel presentable. These are:

• sampling and conversion into the required format for source files;
• elimination of noise and defects in the product ;
• fix defective reflexes, as well as their dorisovki if necessary ;
• Improving the balance of black and white photographs;
• precious stones ;
• color correction ;
• increasing local contrast and improved image sharpness ;
• Clipping and posing on background ;
• Optimization for web ( if necessary) .

Thus , retouching jewelry involves the use of a rather large list of instruments , which in their totality , and can achieve a desired result .

Selection and conversion into the required format of source files
Here everything is clear - the master must select the most successful shots to achieve a desired result by the least effort .

Elimination of noise and defects in the product

Since jewelry are small in size and printed , they can be very large format , even the most minute defects (scratches , dents, unpainted parts and even the smallest dust particles ) on the source images can look just awful. Therefore, each such defect , as well as the noise in the images need to troubleshoot .

Correction of defective reflexes, as well as their if necessary

During shooting, the photographer is not always possible to construct a color to achieve the ideal form of reflexes on small objects. Because this work may take too much time , it is advisable to finish retoucher . In some cases, the reflexes are fully drawn master retouching .

Improving the balance of black and white photos

Special luster with precious photographs and jewelry given by treatment and improve the contrast of black and white , as well as by adding the image of light and dark spots. It also gives an opportunity to highlight and emphasize the attractiveness of the main object image.

Precious stones

It is no secret that the spectacular aesthetic perception of jewelry is often achieved at the expense of precious stones used for their production. That is why to this stage jewelry retouching wizard suitable especially carefully . This may require sharpening , contrast enhancement , the addition of the color spectrum as well as the use of special effects.

Correction

Correction during retouching jewelry is not only used to correct inaccuracies transmission color camera , but also due to the fact that the metal itself is used for making jewelry , may have an uneven color.

Increase local contrast and sharpness improvement

Using this tool, retouching is because during shooting small objects because of the nature of this work , the frame can lose about 50% of its actual resolution . This shortcoming will certainly need to eliminate.

Clipping and posing on background

This work is carried out with a view to an existing object on the photograph ( jewelry ) could be transferred to any other background without losing its showiness . Clipping also need to separate and reflectivity of an object if its shooting on a mirror background .

Optimizing for the web

Optimization of the treated web- picture to the medium if necessary , if it is positioned on the Internet . It gives you the opportunity to optimize the image for a particular web- platform based on existing requirements : graphics format and size.