Jewelry product photography clients tend to provide a style guide to ensure the proper colors are selected. Since this is a gold ring, use Yellow Gold, Pantone: 7403 C.
Coloring the image is a very simple task using the layer set to the color blend mode. After coloring the image will be like the below one.
Here are the steps of how to color a ring image in Photoshop.
- Create a new layer to select the gold color.
- Click on color selection on the bottom of the toolbar to open the color picker.
- Click color libraries.
- Select coated/uncoated Pantone library.
- Scroll for color 7403.
- Select color and press ok.
- Use a large brush and paint over the entire area of the ring.
- Blend mode drop-down menu in layers window and select color blend mode.
- Remove access gold from gems.
- Select layer and press rectangle with circle symbol to create a layer mask.
- Select the layer mask and use the brush to paint away the gold color.
- Use 20-40% opacity depending on how the metal was shot and how saturated it looks.
- Select the layer mask of the gold layer just created.
- Right click on the mask and select add mask to selection.
- Create a new layer and press the layer mask symbol to create a layer mask on the layer.
- Since this mask is hiding the stones invert the layer mask (Ctrl + 1/Command +1) while selecting the mask to invert it. Now the mask is only selecting the stones.
- Go to the color picker and locate the 5405 Pantone color for the stones.
- Paint the color over the stones.
- Select the color blend mode.
- Change the opacity to 15%.
- Use the same layer masks to create curves layers to change the exposure on the metal of the ring and the stones.
- Right-click mask of gold color and add a mask to selection. Then create another curves layer.
- Do the same to make another curve layer for the stones.
- Make sure the exposure adjustments are below the color layers so the colors are not changed.
- Create an S curve for the stones so they pop more.
- Do the same for the metal but boost mid-tones as well.
- Layer masks can be used on other layers to make more adjustments to specific areas.
