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Professional jewellery retouching — precious metal enhancement, gemstone clarity, and reflection control. From starting at $2.00/image at Oval Infotech.

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2024  ·  5 min read  ·  Photo Editing

Jewellery photography is one of the most technically demanding product photography niches. Precious metals reflect everything around them, gemstones require specialist lighting to reveal their brilliance, and the tiny scale of jewellery means that every imperfection in manufacturing or presentation is magnified in the final image. Professional jewellery retouching is not optional — it is what separates a professional jewellery catalogue from amateur listing photographs.

Challenges in Jewellery Photography

✓ Challenges in Jewellery Photography

  • Metal reflections — Gold, silver, and platinum reflect the entire studio environment, requiring careful retouching to create clean, consistent reflections
  • Gemstone brilliance — Diamonds, sapphires, and other stones need enhancement to show their true fire and brilliance
  • Dust and scratches — Microscopic dust particles and surface scratches invisible to the naked eye are clearly visible in macro photography
  • Color accuracy — Gold and rose gold require precise color calibration to appear accurate on different screens
  • Chain complexity — Fine chain links require either pixel-level retouching or advanced masking to clean and enhance

What Oval Infotech Jewellery Retouching Includes

💎 Jewellery Editing Challenges

  • Reflections of camera, lights, and photographer
  • Fingerprints on metal surfaces from handling
  • Hotspots on diamonds and polished surfaces
  • Colour accuracy for gold, rose gold, and silver
  • Tiny detail — scratches invisible to naked eye

✅ Oval Infotech Jewellery Process

  • Manual reflection removal at 400% zoom
  • Fingerprint and dust removal from all metal surfaces
  • Highlight management — sparkle preserved, hotspots gone
  • Metal colour accuracy verified against shot reference
  • From $2.00/image — 48hr delivery for all pieces
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Metal Enhancement

Deep retouching of gold, silver, platinum, and rose gold surfaces — removing dust, scratches, and surface imperfections while preserving natural metal texture.

2

Gemstone Enhancement

Enhancing diamond and gemstone fire and brilliance through selective dodging, burning, and color enhancement.

3

Reflection Control

Creating clean, consistent reflections in polished metal surfaces — either removing unwanted reflections or adding idealistic studio reflections.

4

Background and Shadow

White background preparation and natural shadow creation for catalogue, e-commerce, and advertising use.

Why Jewellery Editing Requires Full-Resolution Precision

Jewellery photography is judged at 200–300% zoom by buyers who zoom in to examine settings, hallmarks, and surface quality before purchasing. A reflection that would be invisible at thumbnail size becomes prominently distracting at the zoom level buyers routinely use. This is why all Oval Infotech jewellery retouching is performed at 200–400% zoom — every visible surface reviewed at the same scale the buyer will examine it.

Oval Infotech has processed jewellery photography for independent jewellers, high street brands, and auction house catalogue production since 2016. Our retouching team specialises in the specific optical challenges of diamonds (fire and brilliance preservation), pearls (surface lustre without overexposure), and coloured gemstones (accurate colour saturation without the colour cast created by reflection from surrounding metals).

Why Professional Editing Matters for Your Business

Professional photo editing is not simply about making images look better — it is about giving your clients the confidence that their marketing materials represent their business at its best. In competitive real estate and commercial photography markets, the quality gap between professionally edited images and smartphone-level processing is immediately visible to the buyers and clients who matter most.

Oval Infotech has delivered professional editing to 500+ photographers and agencies across 50+ countries since 2014. Every image passes a documented three-stage quality control process before delivery. Our free trial allows every new client to verify our standard with their own most challenging images — no payment required, no obligation to continue. Contact us at venkatesh@ovalinfotech.com to get started.

Why 500+ Photographers Choose Oval Infotech

Oval Infotech has operated continuously since 2014 — over a decade of specialist photography post-production service to clients across the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Europe, and New Zealand. In that time, the team has processed over one million images across every photography genre: real estate HDR and flambient, portrait and beauty retouching, product photography, panorama editing, and video post-production.

What distinguishes Oval Infotech from other editing services is not price alone — competitive pricing is necessary but not sufficient. The differentiator is the combination of professional quality, consistent delivery, and responsive communication that makes outsourcing feel like an extension of a photographer's own team rather than a commodity service. Free 5-image trial available for all new clients.

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What Our Product Editing Includes

1

Background Removal

Product is precisely isolated from its background using Pen Tool clipping paths or masking, ready for white, transparent, or custom background placement.

2

Colour Correction

Product colours are corrected to accurately represent the real item — critical for reducing buyer returns caused by colour mismatch between image and product.

3

Surface & Detail Cleanup

Dust, scratches, reflections, and fingerprints on product surfaces are removed, and fine product details are sharpened for a clean, catalogue-quality result.

4

Shadow & Reflection

Natural drop shadows or reflections are created to ground the product realistically against white backgrounds, meeting major e-commerce platform requirements.

5

Format & Export

Images are exported at your specified dimensions and format — pure white #FFFFFF JPEG for Amazon, transparent PNG for Shopify, or layered PSD for further production use.

Product Editing starting at $0.20/image

E-commerce ready product images in 24 hours. Free trial available.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does jewellery photo retouching include? +
Jewellery retouching covers background removal, metal surface cleaning (removing fingerprints, dust, scratches), gemstone enhancement, reflection and hotspot management, colour accuracy correction, and sharp detail enhancement for diamonds and metals.
Why is jewellery photo editing particularly challenging? +
Jewellery reflects everything around it — the camera, the photographer, studio lights, and room colours. Managing these reflections while preserving the genuine sparkle and metal character of each piece requires specialist Photoshop skill.
How much does jewellery retouching cost at Oval Infotech? +
Jewellery retouching starts at $2.00/image for rings and pendants. Complex multi-piece sets, bracelets, and necklaces with multiple diamonds start at $4.00–$8.00/image.
How long does jewellery retouching take? +
Standard jewellery retouching is delivered within 48 hours. Rush 24-hour service is available for product launch and catalogue deadlines.
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