Comments on: Portrait Makeover Part 1 - Whitening Teeth & Eyes

By: guy montag

guy montag — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:37:49 +0000

A very quick and effective way to whiten teeth that I’ve come across is a refinement of the hue -> desaturate technique.

Select the area around the teeth with a simple elliptical marquee, go to image > adjustments > hue & saturation, and at the top of the hue & saturation dialog box, there’s a drop down box that’s set to master. Change it to ‘yellows’, then desaturate away and lighten as needed!

This is much quicker, as the selection doesn’t have to be very complex - in general, nothing inside the mouth is going to have a yellow color that you want to keep that way. Selecting the yellows means that it doesn’t affect any other portion of the mouth as it is generally some shade of red.

By: Portrait Makeover Part 3 - Photoshop makeup | Yanik's Photo Blog

Portrait Makeover Part 3 - Photoshop makeup | Yanik's Photo Blog — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:32:30 +0000

[...] also a great model. If you missed part 1 & 2 of my Portrait Makeover series you can view part 1 here and part 2 here. You’ll also notice that I didn’t use the non destructive dodging and [...]

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:07:47 +0000

Great stuff.. beats messing with magic wand! And I never thought of doing a curve adjustment

Thanks again,
-Jamie

By: Emyr R. E. Pugh

Emyr R. E. Pugh — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:15:41 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial - brightening teeth and eyes has never been easier! Thanks for sharing your expertise!

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:30:35 +0000

Thanks, Yanik. I really your technique of Curves with lasso, since that has virtually no effect on much darker parts (ex. eyelashes) hard to avoid.

Before reading your tutorial, I used the dodge tool, as you mentioned, or used the desaturation option on sponge, or brush tool to whiten, lighten, and desaturate.
bright, white smiles - Ann