WHITEN TEETH TO IMPROVE A SMILE IN PHOTOSHOP CS4
Posted on 07. May, 2009 by Olson in Basics, Photo Editing
 We can greatly improve every portrait in which the subject is smiling by applying a little digital tooth whitening. In this easy to follow tutorial you will be whitening teeth in minutes. |
| We will first select the teeth and soften the selection, to avoid a visible line between the areas that are lightened and the rest of the image. Although there are many ways to make a selection in Photoshop, using the Quick Selection Quick Mask works well when making a detailed selection such as selecting a person’s teeth |
Roll Over Image
Open a image and Zoom in to make a selection.
Select the Quick Selection Tool.
Make sure that the Add to Selection and Auto-Enhanced are selected.
Start making your selection.
After you are done click on Refine Edge.
Play with the setting to get the desired result the most important option here is Feather in our case we enter 1px.
To get a live preview of the edge refinements press F cycle through the preview modes.
Click OK
Now click the Hue and Saturation Button in the adjustment panel.
Note: that a new adjustment layers is created and the selection is hidden. If the adjustment panel it’s not showing go to Window-Adjustments to show the panel.
In the Hue/Saturation option select Yellows.
Click and drag the Saturation slider slowly to the left to remove the yellow, in our case a value of -80 works just fine.
Click and drag the Lightness slider slowly to the right to brighten the teeth.
Select Master form the menu.
Click and drag the Lightness slider slowly to the right to complete the effect.
The technique that we used here is a non destructive way to complete this effect and only available on Photoshp CS4 but there are a couple of ways to achieve the same results in Photoshop, we are going to use the whitening processes in another tutorial coming up in the next couple of days, this time we are going to use a more traditional technique. So stay tuned.
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21 Responses to “WHITEN TEETH TO IMPROVE A SMILE IN PHOTOSHOP CS4”
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tom
07. May, 2009
another great tip, thanx dude!
tom
08. May, 2009
another great tip, thanx dude!
Sorry, forgot to add great post! Can’t wait to see your next post!
photo retouching
08. May, 2009
A nice bit of photo retouching on this easy to follow tutorial.
teejnits
08. May, 2009
Great post! Thanks for the tips… Any chance you have a post about straightening a set of teeth without a few years of dentist visits?
blob
11. May, 2009
not true about cs4 – i’ve just done this with cs2 and it’s exactly the same effect
only diference is that you need to make a new adjustmensts layer – difference of 3 clicks 
oh and insdeadof quick selection i ussed lasso.. that’s it.
great tip! simple and very effective
simply fantastic 
keith
29. May, 2009
yes, same technique works, well, with all versions of PS. UI is different in cs4 but other than that – hue/sat is hue/sat & is available in early versions of PS too.
tutorialslounge
17. Jul, 2009
you giving white smile in this tutorial, really nice work.
robb
22. Jul, 2009
i can’t believe it is that easy.
nice tutorial there.
kudos for sharing.
Sergiu
05. Nov, 2009
hope she is not your girlfriend, because after this tutorial she will dump you for sure!
) nice tutorial.
soleh
30. Dec, 2009
WOW ! this is the first tutorial work for me
thxxxxxxx
Daniel Meadows
08. Feb, 2010
Curves also works very well, pull the blue midtones up to decrease yellow and increase the RGB midtones for lightness if necessary.
Danny
Retouching and Digital Art
lennis
20. Mar, 2010
really useful!!! ^^
naie
29. Mar, 2010
8D thx ! loved it !
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Anke
28. Apr, 2010
really cool way of doing it, loved it! Thanks
maria
09. Jul, 2010
thanks…it was a great tip
Frank23
23. Sep, 2010
That was a great tutorial on teeth whitening. I will definitely have to try that out.
Heather Buckley
01. Nov, 2010
Very interesting indeed!
Diego
25. Mar, 2011
Many thanks it was great tip
sum1
21. Jun, 2011
nice tut.. it would be great if you can attach the image as well.
Lhanré
14. Jan, 2012
Thanks for this