Confusing what jewelry background is makes your jewelry products like rings, necklace, earrings, bracelet, and watches attractive. I have included 16 successful jewelry backgrounds which you can use for your online store to increase sales or use it for branding your products.
16 Successful Jewelry Background
There are many types of jewelry in the market with different types and looks. Nowadays almost everyone also prefers to purchase it online as well no matter how much it. So while you are selling something online you need to start with product photography nicely and upload it online.
While you start a photography of jewelry you need to take care of creative photography in many angles, lighting, backgrounds, props, and camera everything. If you are beginner with jewelry photography so also need to start with your deep research that how to photograph jewelry.
The over goal to make it attractive, eye-catching and look real. So this will help to increase the sale and you can also share over the social media for the branding.
While you are shooting, the jewelry background is the most important part. There are many ways you can change the background and make your product look attractive during the photography. Let’s discuss some creative jewelry backgrounds below.
Before you start with jewelry photography and choose the right background you must clean the jewelry to look more attractive.
1. Use a simple white background.
White background you can use for any jewelry photography. White background is easily available like you can use any white thick cloth or paper sheet for the same.
White background is very simple and you can start with basic photography with a low budget. With white background you don’t need to go through any other background process or need to find any other objects as well so it will save your time as well.
Sometimes jewelry has many different parts with different colors. In this case you may not use other colors as buyers need to check from every angle and every part. So in this case if you are using color for a jewelry background it may confuse your buyers as well.
Jewelry is expensive and also attached with emotions while purchasing wedding rings, ceremony rings or gifts for someone special.
White background shows your jewelry clean and professional and helps customers to purchase the costly products. White jewelry background photography also saves your time and money for photo editing services or jewelry retouching.
2. Jewelry Photography on Black Background
Black jewelry background is eye-catching for the diamond jewelry and colorful stones. The black surface also gives you great reflection. You can normally find out black jewelry backgrounds with costly or most expensive jewelry.
Black background easily you can get from stone or hardware stores. You can use a 50×50 cm block for jewelry background photography.
While you are using black background you need to make sure it should shine against the background like stone or glass. It will help to reflect or shadow the jewelry.
3. Use Grey Background
Grey background nowadays for online stores and branding over social media. You can use light grey color as background only else it will not represent the jewelry.
You can use a grey background for gold or rose gold jewelry to reflect the best detail of each part. If you use like white gold or diamond kind of jewelry it will not look eye-catching and even not represent the details of the jewelry products.
Grey jewelry background normally is a bit famous and nowadays used as an option for black and white colors. For the grey background you can use the hard and thick papers hit or kind or stone or glass.
But with this kind of background you need to take care of reflection or shadow to look natural.
4. Gradient, Patterns and texture Background
Gradient, Patterns and texture Background is the good presenter for jewelry photography. With this kind of background you can use those kinds of backgrounds which make an attractive look of background and highlight your jewelry as well. Gradient, Patterns and texture Background you can also include pearls, charcoal or granite for many different shades.
You can purchase this kind of background online as well at affordable rates. If you check online there are thousands of backgrounds available which you can choose and purchase. Moreover you can also visit the craft shop in the near area and purchase it at around 10 to 15$ per sheet.
5. Branded Theme or Branded Background
Nowadays many companies are using their own branded theme background to create their own identity and brand on social media. For this kind of background companies design their own background digitally including logo and color.
While your graphic designing team is creating this type of background you should take care of light backgrounds which you can use for all kinds of jewelry.
You also need to take care that colors are from your logo from your brands only. This will help you to make your identity on online and social media platforms.
6. Bokeh Background
Bokeh background you can use as a jewelry background as well. With a bokeh background you can display or highlight the particular part of the jewelry.
You can use it for any kind of jewelry. It doesn’t matter if it is big or small. Even with this kind of jewelry background you don’t need to use any other materials as well.
7. Gold Background
Gold jewelry background is only popular in some countries and basically using for gold jewelry bradding like bangles or bracelets etc. I have seen that many big brands are using gold jewelry backgrounds for their expensive jewelry.
In this gold background you can use different shades of yellow or golden color according to your jewelry products and needs. With this kind of background you need to take care that the background represents your jewelry product properly and help buyers to make decisions.
8. Natural Backgrounds
Natural background will also give you an awesome look and you can use it as a jewelry background. You can use leaves, grass, flowers etc.
This will give your very creative and very natural look jewelry photography. Not only natural looks but it will also save your money and time as well. While you are using a natural background, jewelry makes your jewelry look creative and attractive.
9. Sparkles Background
You can also use sparkle jewelry backgrounds especially for the diamond jewelry. Diamond jewelry like wedding rings, necklace etc.
Diamond jewelry looks beautiful with a sparkle background but you can also use the colorful stones jewelry for the same. There are many types of sparkle background that you can use with different dark colors like black or green etc.
You can purchase the sparkle in many different colors from online stores or local craft shops and use it with a background for jewelry photography.
10. Graphite Background
Graphite or black stone background normally used for very expensive jewelry by big brands.
With this kind of background you can photograph jewelry like necklaces or pearl jewelry most of the time. It looks natural and attracts the customer while they are looking for quite expensive jewelry.
11. Wooden Background
You can also use wood as a jewelry background. You can use wood to represent any jewelry that you want to sell or branding. But I have noticed that many photographers use it for rubric or red and blue.
You can also use it for pearl jewelry or any other jewelry for the same with including some leaves, flowers to make it look attractive.
12. Marine Theme
You can also use the marine kind of background for the jewelry photography. It will look very creative and different.
I have seen that you can use pearl jewelry photography with a marine theme background. You can set up the entire idea according to your need and start the photography.
For the same you can purchase required Martial from the local craft shops as well.
13. Colorful Background
Colorful background you can use while it’s a very different color than your jewelry color. For example if you are shooting colorful jewelry at that time you may use a light color background. If you will not make this kind of difference during the photography it will not attract the customers.
So while you are using a colourful background you need to take care of color according to jewelry.
14. Workshop Background
Workshop background is used as a creative one background which will look different. You can use some small tools for jewelry making around the jewelry and make it very creative.
Customers will also feel that it looks like fresh made jewelry. Very few people are using this kind of setup as a jewelry background.
15. Flower Background
Create a flower as a jewelry background especially for the ceremony or wedding rings. Many jewelry photographers are using the red or pink roses for the special gifts or ceremony rings.
This kind of background looks very romantic and attractive to the buyers. It also helps them to make decisions very quickly. You can spray water or sparkle over the fresh roses and start to take pictures as well.
16. Book Background
Book background looks simple and beautiful. You can use white page simple background instead of a colorful background like magazine pages.
For the Beginners this is the best option ever as it will save your time and money during the photography and it needs very minimum photo editing and photo retouching services as well.
So as beginners you don’t have to spend more time to find a background for jewelry photography. You can simply start with books available at home
Overall I have mentioned above 16 jewelry background ideas which you can use but at the end you can also create your own background different from these 16 ideas. A creative background motto is to make jewelry photography look eye-catching and increase your sales.
You can also share it over social media to make it a small to big brand. You can use anything that you have handy to create an awesome jewelry background.
Ron Jonas
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Hi there, I’m Ronald Jonas – A photography specialist, Blogger. Portland, Oregon Area, USA.