Photoshopped color?

[kenny]

The two large blue areas in the table.
Natural or photoshopped?

 

[frosty81]

Photo shopped
Pure guess though
Why do you ask?

 

[kenny]

It's a prominent PS vendor.
I thought they didn't do that. . . not that there's anything wrong with it, I guess.

Maybe we all just have to get used to not believing what we see.
Nowadays it is so easy and tempting to doctor up pics - but in this case they'd be modifying a crucial characteristic of their product, what a diamond does with light.

Actually it's kind of disappointing if it is Photoshopped.

Photographs carry an assumption of believability about them.
Just notice how often people here judge diamond color off pics.

Recently there was a thread critical of an eBay vendor for Photoshopping fire colors into diamond pics.

Does it look natural to anyone here?

 

[swingirl]

It makes a difference whether this photograph is to sell the diamond or the setting. A "beauty" shot to highlight the setting could certainly show an enhanced stone whether it was enhanced by Photoshop or lighting tricks. No one would be judging the stone already set and at an angle.

 

[Cehrabehra]

I''d bet it''s real.

 

[HopeDream]

Given the small flecs of the same blue throughout the stone and the localized area of blue, I''d the diamond was held at such an angle so that large facet is reflecting a blue peice of cardboard or paper nearby.

Not photoshopped, just the use of the natural properties of light dispersion and the mirror like qualities of a well polished and clean diamond. If you look next to the blue, I think you can see part of a person. I think I can see pants and a belt

Reflecting blue may help the stone to appear whiter, not unlike fluorescence.
Definately on purpose though- not an accident.

 

[arjunajane]

As far as I can remember, this is not a shot used to sell a diamond - simply a "glamour shot" of the end product for the buyer to enjoy.
Does it make a difference? Yes and No.

I would not like anything from our prominent vendors to be photoshopped -
but personally I''m with hopedream, I don''t believe this one is.

What would be the point - the ring/diamond has already been completed and purchased, kwim?

(pls correct if my memory of where this photo is from is wrong)

 

[yssie]

Arjuna - I think lots of us recognize the pic style, that's pretty much exactly what I thought

.

 

[shinygoldfish]

This is my ring, so I''ll chime in.

Certainly wasn''t photoshopped by me, and I''d wager that WF isn''t in the photoshopping business. What would be the point?

 

[hihowareyou]

Photoshopping to enhance an image isn't always a bad thing. Photos are rarely true to life and editing them can sometimes make them more like the eye sees. Of course enhancing can work the other way too, adding something to an image that isn't there in real life.

In this case I agree that the blue looks weird but diamonds do some strange things with light so it is entirely possible that it is just a lucky capture. As HopeDream mentioned, we can see the blue reflected in the stone elsewhere so I don't think the image is completely deceptive.

I'm not sure that paying someone to enhance photos like these would be a good financial decision for a vendor like WF, especially if the ring has already been sold.

I'll have to go and hunt down the whole photo shinygoldfish, it looks like a beautiful ring and I want to see more!


edit: i had a look at the original image. to me it looks like the person taking the picture was wearing blue clothing or there is something blue on the wall behind. i can see both blue and skin stones in the stone and on the band. It is such a beautiful ring shinygoldfish

 

[shinygoldfish]

Thanks hihowareyou

If vendors put rings in a little "studio" with blue walls for their glamour shots, I don''t see any problem with that. If someone took a glamour shot of me, I''d want to be in the studio that would make me look as good as possible too!

By the way, the ring looks fabulous in real life

 

[kenny]

Shinygoldfish, hope you don't mine me using this pic.
I tried to crop out the ring to only show the stone.
It is a fantastic stone and ring, absolutely fantastic.
I have a round from the same vendor and I'll tell you get ready for lots of compliments.

Again, I'm not saying Photoshopping is good, bad, right or wrong.
It is just something I wasn't expecting and I'd love to hear from the vendor to learn their perspective on photoshopping fire into pics of their merchandise.

Perhaps the world is just changing and I have to catch up.
Or perhaps it was not Photoshopped, in which case I have learned something too.

 

[denverappraiser]

Date: 10/22/2009 9:23:56 PM
Author:kenny
The two large blue areas in the table.

Natural or photoshopped?

You can get similar effects by having colorful things in the background when the picture is taken. I’m with the above in pointing out that this is a ‘glamour shot’ rather than something to show the properties of the stone. It’s sort of like a magazine photo of a pretty girl vs. a mug shot of the same girl that perhaps doesn’t show her in her best light. Both are right in their own context.

Neil Beaty
GG(GIA) ICGA(AGS) NAJA
Professional Appraisals in Denver

 

[Karl_K]

The color is something being reflected by the diamond in the environment.
The tone of the color indicates the white balance was off on the photo then corrected. (there are other signs)
When the camera totally misses the white balance you see that effect.
Correcting WB is an acceptable adjustment but sometimes you see weird effects.

 

[WinkHPD]

I was going to guess natural, I have seen similar areas in photos I have taken from time to time and I am using a white light box.

I am mystified about the man with the belt, I have looked and can not find him. Can someone point him out to the visually challanged?

Wink

 

[kenny]

He's right next to the well endowed German woman with the low-cut dress carrying a tray of beer steins.

 

[HopeDream]

Here''s the man, and maybe his hand?

 

[HopeDream]

Good heavens!!

Kenny, I think you''re right !

(subliminal messages sell diamonds)

 

[kenny]

Hahahaha.

I''m shocked, I tell you.
Simply shocked!