Www.perfectphotoblog.com. DIY solutions for jewelry photography. By Alex Koloskov posted on March 9th, 2012 | In the book I will show how to shoot necklaces using a DIY shooting cone. However, the same technique can be used for other type of jewelry and gemstone photography. As usual in all my tutorials, I concentrate on how to use the lighting. If you understand how each light affects the image and what role light modifier play, you could use the same approach to shoot another, different from what I’ve showed you in the book subjects, and get a great professional looking images. The e-book consist from actual PDF e-book and embed and attached videos. Both are required to learn the techniques I show here.
Sample gallery of photos from this tutorial: Who will benefit from this e-book: Experience level: What is required: What you will receive: Not convinced yet? About The Author: Alex Koloskov The lighting magician, owner of AKELstudio, Inc. You may also like to read: Human’s code exposed: Photographing DNA encoded jewelry. While working on putting together test result for an upcoming Leica X1 vs Fuji X100 article I found this one year old photoshoot which was never released before. According to pool’s result (did you vote? See it on the right), jewelry photography is the most interested topic among my blog readers, and I am sure this post will be appreciated. Customer has such an interesting idea: DNA encoded jewelry! Have you ever seen graphical representation of DNA test result? It can be represented graphically like this: DNA sample test result Translated to jewelry such information may be represented like this: Atlanta jewelry photographer: DNA encoded golden ring Nice?
I did not have detailed shots of the lighting setup, but I’ve got a video from the shoot and captured few images from there. Jewelry photography lighting setup building stage The actual shooting setup Atlanta photographer: jewelry photography lighting setup The idea to shoot these rings with the stone as a background was brilliant! Paul C. Macro. Silver ring with Swarovski crystals. Used software: Adobe Photoshop CS6 ExtendedTopaz DeNoise Used Tools: You can try to do a retouching work with a mouse, but I highly recommend to use a pen tablet as Wacom: Wacom Intuos4 Large I’ve captured all retouching process of this piece of jewelry:-), and I hope you see the video on www.photigy.com as soon as we edit it. Also, I’ve added the “Useful Links” page on this blog. Stay tuned:-) We are working on our upcoming ebook (another ebook and video from latest masterclass will be available next week), and here I would like to show you the progress.
Now we (Alex and I) have a good grounding in techniques, so this is time for us become more creative. New ebook about how we made this photo will be ready very soon. Thank you for looking. Based on the responses from Alex’s last post about jewelry photo session I”ve decided to post images before and after post production and 100% crop to see amount of work. Mouse Over to see Before and After. Painting in Photoshop (Part 1) - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Photoshop Tutorials, Tutorials. Optimize your MODO Physical Sun and Sky Renderings 190 Views0 Likes Optimize your MODO Physical Sun and Sky renderings - Modo Tutorial This Modo Video tutorial will explain why disabling clamping on your sun and sky model will give you much more dramatic lighting effects in MODO....
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Now take the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a rectangle as shown in the figure below. Select both shapes and align them towards the horizontal that passes through the centers of these figures using the Align palette. Step 2 Keep the shapes selected, hit the Intersect button from the Pathfinder palette. Now build another rectangle and place it as shown in the figure below. Select both shapes and hit the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder palette. Now we've created the shape of the vertical section of the wedding ring. Step 3 Take the Pen Tool (P) and create a vertical line at a certain distance to the right of the created shape. Step 4. Photoshop Website Template Stock Photo Ring Hydrogen Tank · Website Template Graphics. Lighting for jewelry photography: the development process. Just want to give a little insight for one of the projects we have running as some sort of background process during the week before a vacation.
Talking about jewelry photography, small jewelry to be specific. The main intention of this self-assignment that I want to develop a lighting technique which will let me to work with a very small jewelry objects: rings, gems, etc. Shooting such objects require a life-size (1:1) macro (in most cases), and the “conventional” product lighting setups may not work well for them. (Few more examples of the lighting technique for larger jewelry can be found here and here) Why not? Let me show this ring I was using for this assignment: What makes it difficult to shoot is attached diamond: such crystal requires completely different lighting approach then what I can use for the rest of the ring.
Let me go through each stage of the development process. First, the lens selection: Jewelry photography example tutorial: the diamond ring Second, the lighting setup: Metal Chrome Effect - Photoshop CS4 Tutorial. Simay Gold's Catalog Working. Jewellery technique for photoshop. Photos with white background using Photoshop CS5 - Part 1 of 3. The Fast Way to Remove Dark Circles Under Eyes in Photoshop. How to split an image into Polaroid photos. Premier Diamond and Jewelry Community | PriceScope. Adobe Photoshop Metallic Paint. Photoshop Tutorials - photoshop makeup tutorial metallic or glitter eyeshadow.
Photoshop Tutorials - rough metal photoshop text effect. How to Make a Ring in Photoshop CS2. Photoshop tutorials. Editing Jewelry - Photoshop Tutorial | Graphic Media Knowledge. HOW TO SHOT IN MACRO USING REVERSE LENS RINGWatch Video on how to Edit Jewelry in Photoshop: Photo editing is an important step for properly sizing your jewelry images and giving them a professional-quality appearance. Here are some steps on Editing Jewelry with Photoshop Step 1. Open your image on Adobe Photoshop (CS1, CS3, CS4 or CS5) Step 2: Use the Path tool to trace your images. Using Path tool is the best way to trace your images. Step 3: After tracing your images, time to change the colors of your jewelry. Choose "Yellow" on the drop down.
Drag the Lightness to its maximum amount. Again, Choose "Red" on the drop down menu. The reason why we change the "lightness" of reds and yellows of our images is that those colors are not import on the the steel jewelry. Step 5:Unsharp mask play a big role on jewelry editing, specially involving gems. Unsharpen the upper layer. After that drag down the upper layer and erase gem part of the lower layer which is now the upper layer.
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In this tutorial we'll examine the procedure of engaging the desired text with a rusty-scraped metal look. We'll guide you threw and get you in touch with all of the techniques of how to manipulate and how to apply all of the required patterns, the tone variation and all of the rest. So let's get down to business, right away! First of all, create a New Document with sizes of: 720x420 px and color the background in #434343. Then, apply some random text. Now, enter the Layers Properties of the text layer and follow the steps: Now, for the bump texture I've used THIS resource.
Smooth Metal | Photoshop Tutorials. Step 1 First, create a new image about 600x600 pixels (or whatever size is appropriate for the image you plan to create). If you haven’t already got a shape that you want to apply this effect to, now’s the time to make something. The shape in the example is simply made up of 2 circles blended together. Once you have your shape, fill it with this shade of gray: #e6e6e6. Keep your shape on its own layer and make sure you have nothing selected by pressing Cmd+D (PC: Ctrl+D). Step 2 Most of the steps from this point on will be using Layer Styles, which are available in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and later versions.
With your shape’s layer selected, go to Layer » Layer Styles » Inner Glow, and match up your settings with these Inner Glow settings. Next you’ll be adding a bright highlight (the light source). Step 3 Next click on Gradient Overlay and dial in the following settings: Gradient Overlay To add a final touch to the smooth metal, click on Satin and match these settings: Satin Settings Step 4. Photoshop :: Smooth Metal Orb. Jan 13, 2006 I'm trying to smooth the edges of an image I have. Would like to try two things. First is,- simply smooth the edges (this is an image with people in it, and not a shape,-so I don't get the wanted effect when I do "Gaussian blur" as the whole image is being blured). Another thing I would like to achieve is i.e. having a 600*800 image(white background) with a smaller image in the middle. Then somehow manage to blure the edges of the image and by using a gradient colour to make the blured edges cover the empty area around the pic as well...
Also, is it possible to draw a frame? Created a new style in "Layer style", but where do I find this saved style?.. View 1 Replies View Related. Making Selections With The Pen Tool In Photoshop. Written by Steve Patterson. When it comes to making selections in Photoshop, there's really two types of people - those who know how to use the Pen Tool, and those who struggle. Most people put off learning how to use the Pen Tool for as long as possible, while others never get around to learning it, believing it's just too confusing, too complicated, and just plain unnatural. Ultimately, their work in Photoshop suffers for it, since they're stuck relying on the Lasso Tool for just about everything they can't select with the Rectangular or Elliptical Marquee Tools. In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to put an end to the suffering. Now, when I say "easy", I don't mean you're going to read this tutorial and be instantly transformed into a Pen Master.
One of the great things about the Pen Tool is that it's not something that's exclusive to Photoshop. Where Do I Find The Pen Tool? Photoshop's Pen Tool Why Is It Called The "Pen" Tool? Pierre Bezier What Is A Path? Easy! Nope. Tip! Smooth. Step 1 Open a photo you would like to edit. Or, you may use the photo used in this tutorial (from iStockPhoto). Make sure that the image is in RGB color mode. To switch to RGB color mode, click on RGB Color under the Image> Mode menu.
Step 2 Duplicate the current layer (Layer> Duplicate Layer or Ctrl+J). Step 3 Select the top layer and apply a Median filter (Filter> Noise> Median). How to Remove Newton's Rings in Photoshop. Metal Texture. Quick Overview Step 1 Create a new Photoshop document (File> New or Ctrl+N). For this tutorial, we’ve created a 800×600 pixels document. Step 2 Set the background color to 50% grey. Step 3 Now we’ll add some noise to the image. Step 4 Use the Motion Blur tool (Filter> Blur> Motion Blur) to blur the grain.
Step 5 Now we need to enlarge the layer to hide the edge effect caused by the Motion Blur filter. Step 6 Use the Transform tool (Edit> Transform> Scale or Ctrl+T) to scale the selection to the document’s size. Step 7 The metal texture is complete, but it doesn’t look realistic because of a lack of lighting. Step 8 To add a lighting effect to this texture, simply use the Lighting Effects filter (Filter> Render> Lighting Effects). How to Draw a Photorealistic iPhone 4 in Photoshop. Photoshop Tutorials. HELP: Change Silver to Become Gold (Colorization) How To Combine Two Paths Into One. 01 of 03 - Removing the background through Potoshop CS5. 02 of 03 - Cleaning up the back of the shank of the ring with Content-Aware Tool on Photoshop CS5.