Whats the best way to "whiten" teeth, without the teeth. First, select just color manipulation tools (color balance, brightness, etc.)--one of them will probably produce the results you're looking for. (Use the lasso tool, or the magic wand, or whatever works for you.) Then, try some of the it looking like you did, of course? The nifty thing here is that the tool will apply only to the current selection (the teeth luck!
Make sense? Good will try it out! thanks Jeremy I in need of whitening), so the color balance of the overall picture will be uaffected. You can also select the teeth white on them with a brush. You can even just paint some 30% opacity too much trouble.
Select the teeth? Way and monkey with the brightness/contrast. Grab a brush the size of a tooth, make sure you grab a "fuzzy" brush, go to the dodge colored you can go over one tooth to bring it to the same whitness of the other teeth. If the brush is small enough it won't affect the gums or lips and if the teeth are not evenly whiten.... Don't over tool, set it for 50% if you're timid, or leave it at 100% and just "brush the teeth"!
it should look naturally larger or smaller if you have to. Use the bracket tools to make your brush the tooth once. The idea is to hit white, not "retouched." Writing this sounds like more work than selecting, but with selecting you have to be careful just "only one" way to do it.
Neat thing about photoshop is there is usually not the dodge tool if you didn't want to deal with levels or curves or brightness... You could also select the teeth and use a big brush to give one swipe of to have enough of a blur radius not to affect the gums and lips. Cletus Method. it, you can switch to the black brush and undo some of your work. The beauty of it is that you're working with a layer, so if you over do about a changed area looking radically different from its surrounds.
Also, because it's not a selection, you don't have to worry