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BeforeJewelry Retouching Services
Jewelry retouching services for jewelers, marketplaces and product studios, priced per service so you pay only for what each image needs. Every jewelry piece is retouched by hand and checked by a second retoucher at 100% magnification. Brands that outsource jewelry retouching services get a dedicated editing team.
order one or combine several
- Starting Price
Per-service pricing — metal, stones, reflections and tone are each billed on their own.
Turnaround
24h
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Jewelry photo retouching services we provide.
Our jewelry image retouching services are split into six lines, each priced on its own. Order one or combine several, as jewelry brands expect from professional jewelry retouching services. If a piece of jewelry only needs dust removed, that is all you pay for.
Metal cleanup.
The first step in most jewelry photo editing. Dust, lint, fingerprints and fine scratches are removed from gold, silver and platinum by hand, using the piece’s own surface as the source so each repair matches the grain around it.
Brush lines, mill marks and hand-finished texture are kept. Metal smoothed flat looks like a 3D render, and shoppers browsing jewelry online notice it at full zoom.
from $2.00 per photo
- Dust and lint removed
- Fine scratches filled
- Brushed texture retained
- Fingerprints cleared
- Polish grain preserved
- Exposure tidied
Colour and metal tone.
White balance is set against the swatch or product page you send, so yellow, rose and white gold stay distinct and read the same on every image in a collection. This is the part of jewellery photo editing that keeps a range consistent.
We agree one colour spec on your trial images and apply it to every order after, so a spring shoot and an autumn restock match. Many brands brief this as jewellery photo retouching, and the spec works the same way.
from $5.00 per photo
- White balance corrected
- Yellow, rose and white held apart
- Consistent across a line
- Matched to your swatch
- Backdrop cast neutralised
- Gemstone hue kept true
Reflection control.
Polished metal needs highlights to look like metal, but blown highlights read as blank white. Our jewelry image retouching brings hot spots back into range and rebuilds clean reflections on bands, watch cases and polished faces.
Camera, softbox and studio reflections are removed, which adds dimension and depth to jewelry images. Where a highlight is fully clipped, there is no detail to recover, and we tell you rather than paint in a guess.
from $3.00 per photo
- Hot spots brought into range
- Specular life retained
- Studio kit reflections removed
- Reflections rebuilt by hand
- Sapphire glare calmed
- Dial and case detail kept
Stone clarity.
Retouching jewelry photos at the stone level means working facet by facet at full magnification. Dust in the setting and distracting inclusions are reduced, while each gem keeps its real cut, colour and character.
We do not make a stone look better than its GIA clarity grade. A flawless-looking VS2 diamond leads to returns, and honest, high-quality jewelry photographs are what build trust across the jewelry industry.
from $7.00 per photo
- Dust in the setting removed
- Real facets kept
- Colour saturation held true
- Distracting inclusions calmed
- Girdle and table cleaned
- Grade still honest
Sparkle and brilliance.
The core of high end jewelry retouching. Fire and sparkle are lifted with local contrast and hand dodge and burn, so diamonds and coloured stones look bright without turning glassy.
How much sparkle you want is a brand decision, recorded on your spec sheet. These retouching techniques highlight the best features of each stone and bring out the beauty of your jewelry without inventing detail.
from $10.00 per photo
- Fire and scintillation lifted
- Hand dodge and burn
- House sparkle level held
- Local contrast per facet
- No invented facets
- Consistent across the set
Prong and symmetry work.
A jewelry retoucher on our team straightens settings and balances prongs where the camera angle skewed them, so the piece sits square and no claw looks bent. Chain links, clasps and bails are tidied at the same time.
Genuinely asymmetric pieces are left as made, because hand-made jewelry should look hand-made. Our jewelry retouchers apply the same rule to creative jewelry, where the features of the jewelry are part of the story.
from $5.00 per photo
- Prongs balanced
- Chain links evened
- Hand-made character kept
- Setting squared to camera
- Clasp and bail tidied
- Edge holds at 100%
How our jewelry retouching services work
Upload & brief
Drop RAW or JPEG into Drive, Dropbox or our FTP. No sign-up, no card, and 3 images free on a first order.
≈ 1h reply
Choose services & get a quote
Tick the services you want and add a reference frame you already like. We reply with a written quote inside an hour.
≈ 12–24h
Independent QA
Review at full size and send notes. Revisions on anything we got wrong are free and uncapped, with no round limit.
Every image
Deliver & revise
Delivered in your naming and folder structure as JPEG, TIFF or layered PSD, ready to drop into your gallery.
≈ 24h
Turnaround
Most orders are delivered within 24 hours, or 12 hours on a priority plan. Collections of 500+ images take two to three working days. Studios that outsource jewelry photo editing at volume get a retouching service provider that flags any deadline risk early.
What each level of finish includes.
The three jewelry retouching services packages clients order most, with what a retoucher does at each level.
Jewelry photo editing and cleanup.
Our lightest finish, suited to pieces that were cleaned before the shoot and lit evenly. Exposure is set, the backdrop colour cast removed, and dust, lint and fingerprints taken off the metal.
The background is set to pure white, so a marketplace set matches on a category page. This level of jewellery image editing suits most listings and all types of jewelry items, from studs to chains.
from $12.00 per photo
- Dust and fingerprints removed
- White balance corrected
- Background to marketplace white
- Exposure tidied
- Backdrop cast neutralised
- Minor spots cleared
Jewelry image retouching and reflection work.
Our most ordered level, and the one we recommend for product pages. Fine scratches are filled, surfaces cleaned without losing polish grain, and hot spots rebuilt rather than simply darkened.
Any area you want left as shot stays untouched. This is professional jewelry photo retouching for jewelry product photos that need to sell, and the level most online jewelry stores start with.
from $15.00 per photo
- Everything in basic cleanup
- Surface smoothing, grain kept
- Reflections balanced
- Scratch filling on metal
- Hot spots rebuilt
- Metal tone matched to swatch
High-end and hero retouching.
This high-end jewelry retouching level is for images where the stone is the subject, or where the image will be printed large. Stone clarity, sparkle, and prong and symmetry work are all included, and the whole piece is finished at full magnification.
Hero and editorial work, from $25 per image, adds focus stacking, rebuilt reflections and relighting for campaigns. Our high-end jewelry photo retouching relies on expert retouching, not presets, to make your jewelry hold up in print. Creative retouching for a creative jewelry photo is quoted separately.
from $25.00 per photo
- Everything in standard retouch
- Prong and symmetry work
- Reflections rebuilt
- Gemstone clarity and sparkle
- Focus stacks merged
- Relight for print or campaign
What good jewellery image retouching looks like.
Every image from our jewelry retouching services passes these six checks before delivery. They cover the aspects of jewelry shoppers inspect first, and new retouchers learn them in their first week as the base of our jewelry retouching techniques.
01
Stones still look like stones
Inclusions are reduced, not erased, so each stone still matches its grade.
02
Metal tone matches your reference
Checked against the swatch or product page you supply. Yellow, rose and white gold read the same across the whole line.
03
Highlights controlled, not flattened
Blown areas are brought back into range and the shine is kept.
04
Prongs and settings sit true
Straightened where the camera angle distorted them, and left alone where the piece is genuinely asymmetric.
05
Edge holds at 100%
No halos or jagged edges around chains and claws. Hard edges are cut with the pen tool, fine links are masked, and both are checked at actual pixel size.
06
Spec sheet obeyed
Canvas size, margins, background, layers and file names are checked against your spec sheet, so every batch matches the last.
Sixteen years of jewelry photo retouching.
Jewelry shows every shortcut at full zoom. This is what stands behind our jewelry retouching services.
2010
2M+ images delivered
From single engagement rings to full fine jewelry collections and watch catalogs.
60+
Retouchers on jewelry alone
Five of our jewelry photo editors are Adobe Certified in Photoshop. Unlike general retouching companies, we work only on jewelry.
98.6%
First-pass approval
Measured across all jewelry orders in 2025. When an image comes back, the reason is logged and shared with the retoucher who worked on it.
NDA
Written commitments
Signed NDAs, encrypted transfer and free fixes until the finish holds at 100%. Unreleased collections are handled in a separate restricted queue.
What we see go wrong in client files.
Most slow retouches start on set. These six issues add the most time to every jewellery retouch, and each one is easy to avoid during the shoot.
No colour reference
Images arrive with no swatch, product page or note. We can remove a colour cast, but we cannot tell whether a band should read rose or champagne.
Piece shot uncleaned
Fingerprints and dust that a microfibre cloth would remove in seconds become paid retouching time on every image.
One hard light source
A single bare light blows out the top of every polished surface, and fully clipped highlights cannot be recovered.
No focus stack
Deep settings and long chains cannot be sharp end to end in one frame. Without a focus stack, part of the piece will be soft.
Reflective backdrop
A coloured or glossy surface reflects its colour into the metal. A neutral grey or white backdrop saves a colour pass on every image.
No spec on the first order
Without a spec, ten pieces can get ten different sparkle levels. Agreeing it on the trial saves a revision round on every later batch.
Hand retouching vs. the alternatives.
AI presets are faster and an in-house retoucher gives more control. Here is how our jewelry photo editing services compare, and why professional retouching by hand is still affordable for perfect jewelry images.
| Hand retouching | AI presets | In-house retoucher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stones stay honest | ✓ Real facets | ✗ Invents detail | ✓ |
| Metal tone matched to reference | ✓ Per spec sheet | ✗ Global guess | ✓ |
| Consistency across a collection | ✓ Locked spec | Varies by frame | Depends on one person |
| Editable later by your team | ✓ Layered PSD | Settings only | ✓ |
| Cost per image | From $2.00 | Near zero | Salary + software |
| Turnaround at volume | 24h, 60+ editors | Instant | Capped at one desk |
Sunil Barman, Jewelry Post-Production Lead
Sunil runs our 60-retoucher jewelry floor in Dhaka. He has spent ten years on gemstone and metal work, wrote the six-point finish standard for our jewelry retouching services, and signs off every new client’s first batch.
Jewelry photo editing services, answered.
Jewelry photo editing costs from $2.00 per photo for metal cleanup. Colour and reflection work start at $2, stone clarity at $2.50, sparkle and prong work at $3, and hero retouching at $25. You only pay for the services each image needs.
Yes. Every jewelry retouching service can be ordered on its own, such as metal cleanup only. Most jewelers combine two or three services per image, and this flexibility is what brands want from the best jewelry photo retouching service.
Jewelry photo retouching is detailed editing of the piece itself: removing dust and scratches from metal, cleaning and brightening stones, controlling reflections and correcting metal colour. It is also called jewelry photography retouching or jewelry editing.
Jewelry photo editing covers the whole file: cutouts, backgrounds and export. Jewelry retouching is detailed work on metal, stones and reflections. Whether we retouch jewelry only or do both, we quote jewelry photo editing and retouching as one set of retouching and editing services.
Yes. We remove dust and distracting inclusions and lift brilliance, but every stone keeps its real facets and colour. We never make a stone look better than its grade.
Yes. Monthly orders over $500 get 15% off, over $2,000 get 25% off and over $5,000 get 30% off, plus a dedicated retoucher. No contract is needed. If you are comparing the best jewelry retouching service for volume work, ask us for a quote.
Retouching jewelry photos takes 15 to 40 minutes per image. Standard turnaround is 24 hours, or 12 hours on a priority plan. Orders of 500+ images take two to three working days.
Send RAW or JPEG files and a colour reference, such as a swatch, product page or note on the metal colour. For a quick jewellery photo edit, like a background swap, just say so in your brief.
Yes. We deliver a pure white (RGB 255) background with the product filling about 85% of the frame, which is standard jewelry image editing for marketplaces. We never alter the product itself, such as its facets or stone colour.
Yes. We run our jewelry retouching services on 3 of your images free, with no card and no commitment. It is the easiest way to test professional photo editing before choosing photo editing and retouching services.
Send 3 pieces. Check the finish yourself.
No card, no commitment. We will run our jewelry retouching services on your own pieces and deliver them at full resolution within 24 hours.