Teeth Whittening

Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 109

How do you do it?

Premium Member Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 2020

Kind of an odd place to ask about dental procedures... But:

http://www.whitestrips.com/en_US/home.jsp

Sorry. There are a number of methods. Assuming you're using Photoshop.

1. Sometimes, you can use the sponge tool, set to "Desaturate" at 15% or so, to gently get rid of yellowing.

2. After doing 1. You can sometimes use the Dodge tool with the range on "Highlights", again at 9 to 15% to brighten the teeth.

However, care should be taken to keep your modifications subtle so that the subject's mouth doesn't look radioactive.

Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 109

I wasn't sure where to post this, thought it was kind of a newbie question. Most of my work has been done on ppl with pretty good teeth, but I did a quickie pic for a friend of a friend for a yearbook and I don't think his family had the money to get teeth cleaned on a regular basis etc.

I had tried an additional layer and then erasing what I didn't want, but that radioactivness was hitting me hard. I will try the above METHODS :P~~~

Thanks,
Marks

Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 114 Location: Knoxville, TN

Another good method is to add a Hue-Saturation layer set to colorize with a saturation of about 10-15%. The hue will depend on your white balance, but it will usually be between yellow and green. A common mistake first timers make is to allow the teeth to end up in blue, or worse, grey. Sometimes you can turn up the lightness a bit as well. Them mask the layer and make sure you set the opacity to around 75% to help blend it into the image.

Just make sure you don't overdo it. Typically, back it off about 50% of your first inclination and you'll be about right.

Cheers,

Michael

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:05 am

What I do is use the magic wand selection tool to select just the teeth. Sometimes I have to use the lasso tool to fine tune the selection. Then add about a 2 pixel feather to the selection. Next use the hue/saturation and slide the saturation to the left (starts desturating) until the yellow starts to fade. Don't over do it. This will probably make the teeth start to look darker and gray. So next use the lightness slider to brighten them back up... again don't over do it.