Build a jewellery design portfolio that actually gets you hired.

For NIFT, IIAD, GIA, JD Institute, and Pearl Academy jewellery-design students, fresh graduates, and independent designers who need photoreal renders + multi-view sheets + CAD-ready references — without owning ₹8L of CAD software or a full atelier.

Why Facetra was built with students in mind

Every senior jewellery designer starts out with a portfolio that looks weaker than their taste. The sketches are good, the concepts are good, but the renders hold them back — because no student has a ₹1.5L Rhino + MatrixGold + KeyShot bundle, or three days of an outsourced renderer's time per piece.

Facetra levels that field. You upload your paper sketch, describe the style in plain English, and the same afternoon you have a portfolio piece that looks like it came out of a Sabyasachi atelier. That is the whole point.

What a hire-ready jewellery portfolio contains

A jewellery brand or atelier hiring a junior designer looks for exactly three artefacts per portfolio piece. Facetra outputs all three natively:

• Photoreal client-ready render — the piece as the client would see it in a WhatsApp preview. Lasso refinement so you can show variations (“same piece with emerald centre, then ruby, then pearl”).
• Multi-view technical sheet — silhouette-locked 0° / 45° / 90° / 180° views proving you understand how the piece resolves in 3D. This is the artefact that separates a hire-ready portfolio from a Pinterest board.
• Live-rate Bill of Materials — proves you understand manufacturability and costing. Hiring managers love this because most fresh grads leave BOMs out entirely.
• 3D mesh (bonus) — Facetra also outputs GLB / STL / OBJ / USDZ. Embed a rotating 3D viewer in your online portfolio and you're in the top 5% of applicants instantly.

The 8-piece portfolio blueprint

Aim for eight pieces, each carrying the four artefacts above. Range of style matters more than volume. A balanced portfolio typically covers:

1. One bridal Kundan Rani Haar — heritage craftsmanship signal
2. One Jadau chandbali or bali — Rajwadi vocabulary signal
3. One Polki choker or aad — stone-setting range signal
4. One modern diamond solitaire or halo ring — Western setting signal
5. One temple vanki or jhumka — South Indian iconography signal
6. One Indo-Western fusion piece — proves cross-vocabulary fluency
7. One statement cocktail ring or cuff — signals design bravery
8. One entry-level everyday piece (studs, thin band) — signals commercial sense

Total cost using Facetra: ~32 credits × 8 = 256 credits for the full portfolio. On the Atelier pack (₹12/credit) that's roughly ₹3,072 — less than one outsourced render session at a commercial studio.

How much your portfolio will cost

Same pricing as every other Facetra user — one flat catalogue, no locked features on the Free tier, no watermarks. You get 10 free credits on signup which is enough to complete your first full portfolio piece:

• Starter pack — ₹1,500 for 100 credits (₹15/credit)
• Studio pack — ₹7,000 for 500 credits (₹14/credit) — most popular
• Atelier pack — ₹15,600 for 1,300 credits (₹12/credit) — best value, covers the full 8-piece portfolio and leaves credits over for revisions

Educators running a jewellery design programme can contact us at hello@facetra.studio for a classroom licence — one shared credit pool for the whole cohort.

For NIFT / IIAD / GIA / JD Institute / Pearl Academy students

Final-year project (FYP) students at all major Indian jewellery-design institutes are using Facetra to render their submission pieces. Some hard-won tips from their submissions:

• Print your multi-view sheet A3 landscape. Examiners can see silhouette consistency at a glance — no zooming in on tiny thumbnails.
• Include the BOM in your submission binder. It signals commercial literacy that most FYP submissions miss.
• Add a QR code linking to the 3D mesh viewer. Examiners scan and rotate the piece on their phone — instant favourite-project signal.
• Cite Facetra as your rendering pipeline in your process documentation. It's the honest thing to do and it demonstrates you know how the modern industry actually works.

Where to host your portfolio

Simple options that work in 2026:

• Instagram grid — reserve a nine-tile row per piece (render + multi-view + detail crops). Use Facetra's Custom Sizing to output every image at 1:1 exactly.
• Behance or Cargo portfolio — the industry standard for design portfolios.
• Personal domain — namecheap + Framer / Webflow / a simple static-HTML site. Fifteen minutes to set up.
• PDF portfolio — A4 or A3 book layout, one piece per spread. Facetra's Custom Sizing exports print-ready 300 DPI PDF-safe images at the click of a button.

What a Facetra-built portfolio unlocks

Alumni patterns we've observed from students who used Facetra during their FYP:

• Junior designer roles at Kalyan, Tanishq, Bhima, Malabar, PC Jeweller
• Design associate positions at boutique Jaipur / Hyderabad ateliers
• Freelance design commissions from small D2C brands (₹8,000-25,000 per commissioned piece)
• Placement in Sabyasachi's, Anita Dongre's, and Amrapali's design teams (rare — but portfolio quality is the door-opener)

Your portfolio is the ceiling on the roles you can apply for. Facetra removes the technical bottleneck so your taste sets the ceiling.

Frequently asked questions

Can students really use Facetra?

Yes. Facetra runs entirely in the browser, requires no CAD training, and gives new signups 10 free credits — enough to render your first 3-4 portfolio pieces before committing to a pack.

Does a student get the same tools as a working atelier?

Yes. The Studio, PhotoRoom and Catalog features are identical for every user — no locked features on the Free tier, no watermarks. New signups get 10 free credits so you can produce your first portfolio piece before committing to a pack.

Can I use Facetra for my NIFT / IIAD / GIA final year project?

Absolutely. Facetra outputs photoreal renders, silhouette-locked multi-view sheets, and CAD-ready 3D meshes — everything a jury or examiner expects. Cite Facetra as your rendering pipeline in your project documentation.

Will my portfolio work for job applications at atelier and jewellery brands?

The portfolio hiring managers want to see includes: photoreal client-ready renders, multi-view technical sheets, and a BOM per piece. Facetra outputs all three natively, so your portfolio matches the exact deliverables an atelier expects a junior designer to produce.