Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

Improve a smile by WHITENING TEETH
You can greatly improve every portrait in which the
subject is smiling by applying a little digital toothwhitening.
Yellow teeth always dull a smile as well as
the overall look of the photo.
You first select the teeth and soften the selection, to
avoid a visible line between the lightened areas and
the rest of the image. Although you can make a
selection in Photoshop in many ways, using the Quick
Mask mode or the Quick Selection tool as described in
Chapter 2 works well when making a detailed
selection, such as of a person’s teeth.
After the teeth are selected, whitening is a two-step
process. You have to remove the yellow and then
brighten the teeth by adjusting the saturation. As in
previous tasks, zoom in to make the detailed
selection, and then zoom out to see the whole image
before adjusting the color. Digital tooth-whitening
should be a subtle adjustment to keep the smile and
the person looking natural.
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Note: Photograph copyright
© Photospin.com.
1 Zoom in and make a selection of
the teeth using the Quick Mask
mode or the Quick Selection tool.
Note: To use the Quick Mask
mode, see task #23. To use the
Quick Selection tool, see task #22.
2 Click Select.
3 Click Modify.
4 Click Feather.
The Feather Selection dialog box
appears.
5 Type 1 or 2 in the Feather Radius
field to slightly soften the edge of
the selection.
6 Click OK.
7 Click the Zoom tool and zoom
out to see the whole image.
8 Press Ô+H (Ctrl+H) to hide the
selection marquee.
Note: If the dialog box appears,
click Hide Extras.
The selection marquee is no
longer visible, but the teeth are
still selected.
9 Click the Hue/Saturation button
to create an adjustment layer.
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