The WorkbenchShoot
Camera Settings Cards
Phone camera settings per metal — yellow gold, silver, kundan, polki — as printable pocket cards.
Start from a counter like yours
What you shoot
Tick every material that lands on your tray — one card each, and Continue commits.
Two-tone pieces need no special handling — tick both metals and you get one card each; shoot the piece twice and keep the better frame.
This decides whether the cards speak in ISO and shutter, or in the gestures your camera actually has.
The light sets the white balance on every card — and the shutter, when it runs off mains.
Your cards appear here
Tick at least one material above — or tap a counter like yours — and its card builds itself here: white balance in Kelvin, exposure in thirds of a stop, and, on a phone with no Pro mode, the two gestures that do the same job.
Your shop on the cards
Your logo on every card, the flip-side rescue face, and the whole-shop ZIP — every material, both phone types, all four formats in one download
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Sellers also ask
Why does my gold jewellery look orange in photos?
Almost always the light, not the phone — shop tube-lights and warm LEDs push white balance far off daylight. Set WB to about 5500K (or shoot near a window with the tubes OFF), pull exposure down a third of a stop, and never mix two light sources. The gold card carries these exact numbers for your phone.
My phone has no ISO or shutter settings — are these cards useless for me?
No — pick 'iPhone standard' or 'Android basic' and every number is translated into gestures your camera app does have: press-and-hold to lock focus and exposure, then drag the brightness slider down about a third for gold or two-thirds for silver. Same result, no Pro mode needed.
Why do grey bands appear in my jewellery photos under tube light?
Indian mains run at 50 Hz, so a tube light or LED ring flickers fifty times a second and a fast shutter catches that flicker as grey bands. Keep the shutter on 1/100 or 1/50, or switch on anti-banding 50 Hz in your camera settings. A card built for tube or ring light already puts the shutter at 1/100 for exactly this reason.
Why does my silver jewellery come out as white blobs with no shape?
Polished silver behaves like a mirror, so the meter over-brightens it and the shape disappears. Diffuse the light instead of pointing it straight at the piece, keep HDR off because it flattens the mirror highlights, and stand a black card about 10 cm from the far edge so the piece keeps a clean outline against the white background.
Why does my kundan look dull and flat in photos?
Kundan and polki take their glow from the foil behind the stone, and a second light or a reflector opposite cancels it. Use one soft light at 45 degrees and switch everything else off — if you can see two reflections inside each stone, a second light is still on. Then tilt the piece, not the phone, until the glow catches, and keep HDR off.
Should I zoom in or move the phone closer to the jewellery?
Stay at roughly 20 cm and use the 2x lens — do not push the phone closer and do not zoom past 2x. Digital zoom beyond the real lens softens the piece and puts colour fringes on diamond and CZ facets. On iPhone 13 Pro and later, auto-macro also jumps to the 0.5x ultrawide up close, which bends the edges of a chain.
Can I print a settings card for every phone my staff use?
Yes, with Tools Pro — one download gives all ten materials in all four phone languages (iPhone, iPhone Pro, Android Pro and Android basic) as A4 sheets of eight cards with cut marks, so each staff phone gets the card that matches it. Free, every card is readable on screen and you can download three pocket-size card PDFs a day.