Whiten Teeth Professionally
Everyone (Well, just about) gets their picture taken and they see the final picture and they are shocked by how yellow their teeth are. Of course, thanks to the genius’ who created Photoshop, we can easily make those teeth white.
Now a lot of people make the mistake of wanting to make the teeth white and that’s what they do. They take a white color and start coloring those teeth. What you really want to do is actually remove the color from the teeth. Removing the color gets rid of that yellow color and makes them look white and clean.
Find an image that you want to make the teeth white on. I used Google to find a picture for myself; if you would like you can use the same image.
Create a new Adjustment Layer, Hue/Saturation.
Adjustment layers are very nice. They come in handy when you edit photographs. They’re exactly like a vector mask, but instead of having just visibility on white sections of the mask it applies an adjustment to the photo. In this tutorial we’re going to drop the saturation and make the teeth have the dropped saturation applied to them. This is really handy when you don’t want to edit the original photograph.
Set your saturation to -51. However, you can set it to whatever you want, this just depends on how white you want the teeth.
Now this is going to make the whole photograph very washed out and not have much color, but take a look at those teeth. They’re not yellow anymore. Now how do we apply this whiteness to only the teeth, you ask? Simple:
Invert the adjustment’s layer mask so it is black instead of white.
Take a medium sized brush (fuzzy) and set the color to white (#FFFFFF) and start coloring on top of the teeth in the layer mask.
Once you start coloring on top of the teeth in the layer mask you’ll notice how the teeth are turning white. Go over all the teeth; you may need to change brush sizes to get smaller parts of the teeth. Once you get done going over all of the teeth you should get some very nice pearly whites! Take a look below for my result.
Now as you can see with the power of Photoshop we can easily get rid of those icky yellow teeth. I hope this tutorial helped you in some way or another.