Another Newb question lol

Tim Kirkwood · December 10, 2004

Whats the best way to "whiten" teeth, without it looking like you did, of course?

Tim

ubergeek · December 10, 2004

Whitening teeth
Crest Whitestrips?

Tim Kirkwood · December 11, 2004

ubergeek wrote:

Crest Whitestrips?

ummm......thanks.....ummm......I think....

Kinda looking for some instant results...lol

Healing brush???
Not sure.

ubergeek · December 11, 2004

Whitening
OK, with some seriousness this time...

First, select just the teeth. (Use the lasso tool, or the magic wand, or whatever works for you.) Then, try some of the color manipulation tools (color balance, brightness, etc.)--one of them will probably produce the results you're looking for. The nifty thing here is that the tool will apply only to the current selection (the teeth in need of whitening), so the color balance of the overall picture will be uaffected. Make sense? Good luck!

Cheers,
Jeremy

Tim Kirkwood · December 11, 2004

ubergeek wrote:

OK, with some seriousness this time...

First, select just the teeth. (Use the lasso tool, or the magic wand, or whatever works for you.) Then, try some of the color manipulation tools (color balance, brightness, etc.)--one of them will probably produce the results you're looking for. The nifty thing here is that the tool will apply only to the current selection (the teeth in need of whitening), so the color balance of the overall picture will be uaffected. Make sense? Good luck!

Cheers,
Jeremy

thanks Jeremy I will try it out!

Tim

fish · December 11, 2004

You can also select the teeth and monkey with the brightness/contrast. You can even just paint some 30% opacity white on them with a brush.

Andy · December 11, 2004

whitening teeth in photoshop
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Dee · December 11, 2004

Quick and easy way

Tim Kirkwood wrote:

Whats the best way to "whiten" teeth, without it looking like you did, of course?

Select the teeth? Way too much trouble.

Grab a brush the size of a tooth, make sure you grab a "fuzzy" brush, go to the dodge tool, set it for 50% if you're timid, or leave it at 100% and just "brush the teeth"!

If the brush is small enough it won't affect the gums or lips and if the teeth are not evenly colored you can go over one tooth to bring it to the same whitness of the other teeth.

Don't over whiten.... it should look naturally white, not "retouched."

Use the bracket tools to make your brush larger or smaller if you have to. The idea is to hit the tooth once.

Writing this sounds like more work than selecting, but with selecting you have to be careful to have enough of a blur radius not to affect the gums and lips.

Neat thing about photoshop is there is usually not just "only one" way to do it.

You could also select the teeth and use a big brush to give one swipe of the dodge tool if you didn't want to deal with levels or curves or brightness...

There, a compromise method!

wxwax · December 11, 2004

Sounds to me like a job for the Cletus Method. The beauty of it is that you're working with a layer, so if you over do it, you can switch to the black brush and undo some of your work.

Also, because it's not a selection, you don't have to worry about a changed area looking radically different from its surrounds.

Tim Kirkwood · December 11, 2004

Here is my first attempts at teeth whitening. I also removed the bow from my brothers hair lol I should have caught it before the shot was taken. It was on the tree and the tree was rotating so I didnt notice it:D

wxwax · December 11, 2004

Hers look good. His seem to stand out a little. Maybe it's just me?

Another Newb question lol

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