Jewelry KeyShot Rendering Tutorial - Diamond Ring Lighting 

Rendering jewelry is notoriously difficult. It's primarily a lighting exercise. So, I set out to render a diamond ring on a white background in KeyShot. Now you can do it too! Free project files included! Thanks to Ravi Vyas for supplying the great ring model!
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0:00 Start Intro
1:33 Import Reference
2:58 Camera Setup
4:33 Apply Materials
4:55 About Reflections
5:53 Editing Materials
6:58 White Background
7:06 Blah, Blah, Blah
7:10 Photographic Image Style
8:05 Creating Custom HDRI
8:52 Creating Pins (lights)
9:41 Creating Dark Reflections
11:09 Duplicating Pins
11:37 Experiment
11:51 Adding More Pins
12:11 Lighting the Diamond
13:08 Lighting the Shank
13:36 HDRI Gradient
14:45 Adding Contrast
15:39 Refining Black Pins
16:38 Falloff
17:30 Accurate Pin Positions
17:43 Using the Camera Grid
18:04 Sharpening Reflections
21:02 Adding Complexity to HDRI
21:25 Different Falloff Modes
22:04 Set Highlight Tool
22:52 Finessing the HDRI
24:28 Real-time Render Settings
25:23 Post Processing Effects
28:13 Make Diamond Pop