How to get rid of the imperfections of a diamond wedding ring...?

The question is simple: How to get rid of the imperfections of a diamond wedding ring...? As you see there are tiny cracks and spots on the diamond on the wedding ring. How can I get rid of them and make the ring look perfect?

Add a fake sparkle in PS.

Do a lot of cloning and pasting.

Try using "lighten" mode with your paintbrush.

Take your pick.

Save yourself some time and recompose the picture so you don't see the imperfections. hehe..

Was it dirty, too?

I'd clean it and reshoot, then retouch.

That ring is filthy. You'll need to clean and re-shoot it, IMO

Hows this look

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drdiesel1 wrote in post #12068023
That ring is filthy. You'll need to clean and re-shoot it, IMO

Hows this look

I like this edit...what did you do in PS to the center diamond in order to get it to sparkle that well?

A_Gurl wrote in post #12070546
I like this edit...what did you do in PS to the center diamond in order to get it to sparkle that well?

I stole a similar image from a diamond ring site, made a selection and pasted it into the image. I resized and moved it around until it looked OK. I then added a white mask to that layer and used a soft black brush @ 10% opacity to blend it into the retaining prongs.

It's clocked a little off center, but it was more or less a quick joke edit. Thanks for the nice comment. I always look for ways to work on stuff in CS5 to enhance and practice new things.
It's fun and even the simplest things like this can enable you to learn something new, at least for me. Photoshop is a never ending, learning tool.

drdiesel1 wrote in post #12070730
I stole a similar image from a diamond ring site, made a selection and pasted it into the image. I re sized and moved it around until it looked OK. I then added a white mask to that layer and used a soft black brush @ 10% opacity to blend it into the retaining prongs.

It's clocked a little off center, but it was more or less a quick joke edit. Thanks for the nice comment. I always look for ways to work on stuff in CS5 to enhance and practice new things.
It's fun and even the simplest things like this can enable you to learn something new, at least for me. Photoshop is a never ending, learning tool.

It looks like the cut of the stone was slightly different too... the second stone had an additional little facet in the center that the original didn't have. But not bad for a quick one off.

Lunajen wrote in post #12085223
It looks like the cut of the stone was slightly different too... the second stone had an additional little facet in the center that the original didn't have. But not bad for a quick one off.

Yeah. The new stone looks much nicer

The second stone is obviously different to any one who knows a little bit about diamonds.

The first diamond, you see those specs because it is likely dirty, but some of them seem a little deeper. If this diamond were graded by GIA Labs, it would be an SI2 or I1 diamond most likely. The facet arrangement is also not perfect, which tells me that it is likely a GIA Very Good cut diamond. Not likely GIA Excellent Cut.

The photoshoped diamond is higher quality as can be seen by the cut. The facet arrangement is that of a Hearts & Arrows cut, the same type of cut used by Tiffany, Hearts on Fire, Infinity Diamonds, ISee2, etc. etc.

looks like it needs more light.

but the photoshopped diamond is higher quality? magical...