Lustre & Co — macro retouching that made every stone sell.
A fine-jewelry house’s online photos were flattening pieces that dazzle in person. We retouched the line at macro magnification — lifting brilliance, cleaning metal, matching color — and product-page conversion rose 24%.
Executive summary .
Lustre & Co sells rings, necklaces and watches that look exquisite in person — but online, the camera was flattening every stone. Dust, fingerprints and dull facets that the eye forgives in a showcase became glaring on a product page.
We retouched the full line at macro magnification and locked a consistent metal-tone standard — lifting brilliance, cleaning surfaces, and raising product-page conversion 24%.
The Clipp Out Line solution .
Specialists worked each piece at full zoom: dust and scratches off the metal, inclusions calmed, facets and prongs cleaned, reflections rebuilt — brilliant but believable, never the over-cooked sparkle of a filter.
Color retouch then matched yellow, rose and white metals to one standard, so the collection looks unified across every product page.
Lustre's pieces were already dazzling. The photographs just needed to catch the light.
Understanding what really mattered for Lustre & Co .
Making stones look as brilliant as they are
Straight out of the camera, diamonds read grey and gold looked muddy. The imagery was undercutting the craftsmanship — and the price point.
- Challenge
Generic filters oversaturated and plasticized the stones, and looked different piece to piece. Nothing captured real fire and scintillation.
- Solution
Macro retouching lifted brilliance naturally and calmed distracting inclusions — brilliant but believable, never fake. Conversion rose 24%.
Cleaning metal without losing character
Polished bands and watch cases threw harsh hot spots and showed every fingerprint and micro-scratch under studio light.
- Challenge
Dust, prints and scratches were glaring at product-page zoom, and reflections fell across the metal in distracting bright patches.
- Solution
We cleaned every surface and rebuilt clean, believable reflections — keeping the metal’s true character and finish intact.
Unifying color across the whole line
Yellow, rose and white metals drifted in tone shot to shot, so a collection viewed together looked inconsistent and less premium.
- Challenge
White-balance drift meant the same gold looked different across pieces, breaking the sense of a cohesive, high-end collection.
- Solution
lor retouch locked every metal to one standard, so the line looks unified across every product page and lookbook.
Spec first, then scale .
Lustre didn’t need a filter — they needed a retoucher’s eye at scale. Their pieces are genuinely beautiful, so the goal was honesty: show the real stone and the real metal at their best, consistently, across the whole line.
So we agreed the finish first. A free sample established a natural, true-to-life look — brilliant but believable — before any production work began. Once that was signed off, every piece ran through the same macro workflow with QA on each frame.
From backlog to pipeline .
Real samples for each kind of jewelry retouching we do. Drag your own images onto any slot to preview them here.
Defined the finish
Agreed a natural, true-to-life look on a free sample — brilliant but believable, never the over-cooked sparkle of a filter.
Retouched at macro
Worked each piece at full magnification — dust and scratches off the metal, inclusions calmed, facets and prongs cleaned.
Rebuilt reflections
Tamed hot spots and rebuilt clean, believable reflections on polished bands and watch cases.
Matched the line
Color retouch locked yellow, rose and white metals to one consistent standard across every product page.
Sunil has spent nine years retouching jewelry and building Clipp Out Line’s QA standards. This page is reviewed quarterly to reflect current pricing, turnaround, and best practice in jewelry image editing.
Sunil Barman
Lead Editor, Clipp Out Line
Value created, measured .
For Lustre & Co, better photos meant a better business. Retouched product pages converted 24% higher as stones finally read brilliant and metal looked immaculate at full zoom.
Editing cost fell 38% versus their previous retoucher, and with first-pass approval at 98.4%, the natural finish needed almost no revision — the line now looks consistently premium end to end.
1,200
Images delivered
Full SS26 catalog, edited end to end
24h
Turnaround
From backlog to publish-ready
+24%
Conversion
On retouched product pages
−38%
Editing cost
Vs their previous vendor
98.4%
First-pass approval
Almost zero revisions needed
The difference , up close.
Representative samples. Swap these for the client’s real before/after pairs at launch.
Diamond ring · sparkle
SKU 1042
Gold necklace · metal cleanup
SKU 1108
Watch · reflection control
SKU 1156
The gemstone work is flawless — inclusions gone, brilliance intact, never overdone. Our product pages finally look as good as the pieces.
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