More before & after

Here's another before & after photo. This one is of a pair of wedding rings (with a piece of diamond embedded into each ring), which originally had scratches on em. Doesn't look that appealing in a picture, with all those scratches "adorning" the surface of the white gold (?) rings.
Anyway, the same sort of technique was applied in retouching this photo. A lot harder to do compared to the previously posted photo on here? I wouldn’t say that… but yes, it was definitely a challenge in a way, especially because the scratches were rather close together and different areas of the rings had different colour patterns.
So aaaaanyway… after spending over an hour on it, the photo turned out to be as seen on the left here.

* Note that I didn’t change much of what’s in the background. I didn’t even crop the photo. I think it looks nice just as it is. Frank’s got good eyes for this sort of shot… or any other sort of shot for that matter. - Mark