Garnet and diamonds on a bed of crushed ice.
RAW > psd
sharpened / unsharp mask
layer for levels
layer to desaturate a yellow bleed-through
layer to extra saturate the red
layer for contrast
cloned out a few specs
resize, SFW
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To me, the concept of "ice on ice" would really have been driven home if the ring, particularly the center stone, would have been as shiny as possible. There's condensation on the ring which, to me, is distracting.