Tuesday, February 25, 2014

CoffeeShop Bright Smile Photoshop/PSE Action and UnWrapped Tutorial: Subtle Teeth Whitening


We have all seen it; people who whiten their teeth until they glow in the dark.  Scary, right?  But what do you do when you are editing a lovely portrait and have to deal with slightly yellowed teeth from pleasurable coffee drinking (yep, that's me)?  I have seen people go crazy on the teeth editing, so I want to post a tutorial/action that gives a subtle, natural tooth whitening that won't blind you.

I am including a step-by-step tutorial and an action.  Thanks to suggestions from my readers, I am going to create single-step actions for all of my retouching action sets.  I plan on writing a simple smooth skin action next.

CoffeeShop Bright Smile Photoshop/PSE tutorial:


1.  Open your image.  As you can see, this lovely lady has slightly yellow teeth.


2.  Add a Hue/Adjustment layer and set the Master and Yellow setting to the screenshot above.  Master:  Hue, -10; Saturation, -25; Lightness, 15.  Yellow:  Saturation, -20; Lightness, 40.  You can play with these settings if needed.


3.  Then add a black layer mask to the Hue/Saturation layer.  (Click to select it and fill it with black.)


4. Click to select the layer mask and use a soft white 100% opacity brush to paint on the teeth. I clicked on Shift-alt and clicked on the layer mask so I could see where I was painting.


5.  Admire your subtly whitened teeth!


Mouse over to see the before.

 
Download the free CoffeeShop Bright Smile Action
 
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For complete info on installing all of my actions, click here.

3 comments:

  1. Would it be possible for you to break these steps down for a beginner? It says open a hue/saturation layer and use a black layer mask. I'm not sure how to do these things. Thanks.

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  2. Is this not available for download anymore?

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    1. Niki, the download is toward the bottom of the post!

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