Brighten Teeth

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hey everyone, Howard Pinsky here with another Photoshop
• 00:07 and Lightroom tutorial. In this video, I’ll show you
• 00:10 several methods of brightening up and
• 00:13 getting rid of the yellow in someone's teeth. So here we are in Lightroom
• 00:17 to start off, and there are two things you can do in Lightroom to
• 00:21 help solve this problem:
• 00:22 one of which is a lot better than the other. So I'm going to enter the development module
• 00:27 by either clicking on develop at the top or pressing the ‘D’ key on the keyboard.
• 00:29 Now, in the first section, the basic adjustments,
• 00:34 I'm not going to touch anything, because this image is pretty nicely exposed.
• 00:37 But of course, in your images,
• 00:38 if you do need to tweak the basic adjustments, feel free to do so.
• 00:42 I'm going to scroll down to the HSL section, which stands for hue, saturation
• 00:47 and luminance -
• 00:47 this gives us control over all the different colors and shades in the image.
• 00:51 In this panel, we have the different colors which we could use the
• 00:56 sliders to control,
• 00:57 but you also have, at the top left corner, the targeted adjustment tool,
• 01:02 which is the much better choice in my opinion. So when you click on this you are
• 01:05 able to move your mouse
• 01:06 overtop of the color you want to adjust - in this case yellow -
• 01:09 and then simply click and drag down. That will suck the yellow
• 01:13 out the image, because I'm decreasing the saturation. Of course, if you want to
• 01:17 increase it, you can drag it the other way. But I'm going to pull it down,
• 01:20 just like this, a little bit. Now, you notice when I'm doing that, the yellow,
• 01:23 if I turn this off and then turn it back on,
• 01:26 the yellow in the teeth is definitely decreasing. But you're also noticing that
• 01:31 the reds in the lips, or the pinks in the lips,
• 01:33 and also the peach in the skin are also decreasing. So in that case, what you can
• 01:38 do is hover over top of the lips,
• 01:40 so we will target the reds, and then bring that up a little bit to bring that
• 01:44 back.
• 01:44 Now when turning off and then back on again, you can definitely see that the
• 01:48 lips are a little bit better,
• 01:50 but the skin was also affected, and you can keep tweaking this until it looks great.
• 01:54 I can hop over to the luminance tab,
• 01:55 grab the target adjustment tool one more time and brighten up the teeth, just like
• 01:59 that.
• 02:00 So, again, I'm going to turn this off and then back on. So it definitely made a
• 02:04 difference and it looks a little bit better.
• 02:06 But what if you don't want to affect everything
• 02:09 else other than the teeth? I'm going to turn this off and scroll back up to the top of the
• 02:14 adjustments panel.
• 02:15 This time I'm going to grab my adjustment brush, which is this
• 02:18 icon right over here, and this will allow us to paint
• 02:21 in exactly where we want to adjust. So you notice if I start painting here,
• 02:25 you can see the area that's going to be adjusted, and that's because
• 02:28 I have a color set over here at the bottom of
• 02:32 the adjustment brush panel. So I'll just paint over top of this. Obviously I'm not going to keep
• 02:36 your teeth green,
• 02:37 but just to show you how this works: it's much more specific than the last method.
• 02:41 Of course, you obviously don't want a green color, so I'll click on the green box
• 02:45 and change this to transparent, by dragging it all the way to the bottom
• 02:48 left. I'll close out the ‘select a color’ window.
• 02:51 Now, obviously you're noticing that the saturation is way down.
• 02:55 I'm going to double click on a saturation slider to reset it back to zero.
• 02:59 And in this case, what you could do is just adjust the temperature,
• 03:02 which right now is a little bit yellow, so I'll drag it to the left.
• 03:05 That's going to take that yellow out of the teeth. Now, if I continue painting, I can
• 03:10 continue
• 03:11 removing the yellow from the teeth, just like this. And I can paint
• 03:15 on the image as much as I want. What you’re noticing is that it is really not affecting any of the
• 03:20 other colors, like the reds or the peaches in the skin,
• 03:23 because I'm really not painting over top of it. And the little red that I am
• 03:27 painting over top of
• 03:28 in the gums and lips, you're not really noticing a difference.
• 03:31 So that's not too bad. Now, if I turn this off with this icon at the bottom
• 03:35 left,
• 03:36 and then back on, you’re noticing only the teeth are being affected.
• 03:40 And of course you have all these other adjustments, so I can take the highlights
• 03:43 and increase it a little bit if I want to. Or I can adjust the exposure instead, just like that.
• 03:47 Now that's probably a little bit too overdone, but you can't we
• 03:51 can tell you find in my sweet spot,
• 03:53 And again if I turn it off and then back on you definitely have much nicer teeth.
• 03:58 So that's how you can do it in Lightroom. But if you want a little bit more
• 04:01 control
• 04:02 you can definitely do this edit in Photoshop.
• 04:05 So here we are in Photoshop and the nice thing about editing in Photoshop
• 04:08 is that you have access to adjustment layers. So the bottom of your Layers panel
• 04:11 you can click on the adjustment Layer icon and you can choose all these different
• 04:15 just layers. For this example I'll choose Selective Color,
• 04:18 which allows me to go through my colors and adjust the cyans the magenta
• 04:22 the yellow and the black of each and every color. So I can select yellow
• 04:26 and then in this panel I can track the yellow slider to the left
• 04:30 which will get rid of the yellow in the image and you may not be able see that
• 04:33 but if I turn Selected Color off and then back on
• 04:36 you may be able to see that the yellow in the teeth has definitely decreased.
• 04:40 And then you can switch over to the whites and do the exact same thing: grab
• 04:44 the yellow slider
• 04:45 and drag to the left which again decreases the yellow in the teeth.
• 04:48 Again I'll turn Selection Color off
• 04:51 and then back on but you're noticing the same problem that arose in the first
• 04:56 example when we're in Lightroom.
• 04:57 Where even though the teeth are being affected, everything else is changing as
• 05:01 well.
• 05:02 But because we're in Photoshop and because we're using an adjustment layer
• 05:06 we also have access to layer masks which allows us
• 05:09 to choose exactly what we want affected. Kinda like the adjustment brush in
• 05:13 Lightroom.
• 05:14 So in the Layers panel we have our layer mask right over here
• 05:17 and their are a few ways to work with this. You can either grab a black brush
• 05:22 and then change the brush over here on the left. I'll choose a black brush.
• 05:27 And if I right click I can set my size: let's say somewhere around,
• 05:32 this a pretty big document, somewhere around 432,
• 05:36 and the hardness I wanna set to 0.
• 05:39 And when I paint black on this document it's going to remove the adjustment from
• 05:43 everywhere I'm painting on top just like this, and because I'm using a Wacom
• 05:47 stylus
• 05:48 its also detecting my pressure sensitivity.
• 05:51 So if there are some areas of the photo that I won a little bit less affected
• 05:54 I could press a little bit softer on my stylus and I can do just that.
• 05:58 So once again I'm gonna turn off the Selective Color adjustment
• 06:02 turn it back on, and you're noticing now only the teeth are being affected the
• 06:06 lips are fine,
• 06:07 the skin is fine, we only have the teeth. Now the second way you can do things
• 06:11 is pretty much do the opposite
• 06:13 you can paint in white where you'd like the effect to take place.
• 06:17 And if that's the route you wanna take you want to take your layer mask and
• 06:20 make it completely black.
• 06:21 So right now my foreground color is set to black. I'll hold on my option key on the Mac,
• 06:25 Alt key in Windows, and press Delete which will fill the whole layer mask with black.
• 06:30 Now at this point you want to switch to a white brush.
• 06:34 I'll press the D key on my keyboard to set the default brushes.
• 06:37 And then decrease the size my brush a little bit by pressing on the left square bracket
• 06:40 key.
• 06:41 And simply brush cover top of the teeth. Now we'll paint in my selective
• 06:44 color
• 06:45 adjustment layer only on the areas that I'm painting on top of:
• 06:49 in this case the teeth. And you're noticing as I'm doing that
• 06:52 the teeth are becoming less yellow and a little bit more bright.
• 06:56 and I can continue down here just like that, make a brushstroke
• 06:59 right across there, and we now have much brighter teeth.
• 07:03 Turn off the selective color adjustment layer and then back on.
• 07:07 Now again because we're using adjustment layers what I can do is add another one.
• 07:11 I can add a brightness and contrast adjustment layer. Brighten it up just a
• 07:15 little bit,
• 07:17 and then I can clip it using this icon right here which'll clip it to the
• 07:20 previous adjustment layer.
• 07:22 so only affects the teeth as well. If I turn that off
• 07:25 and then back on, you'll notice the teeth are now nice and bright.
• 07:29 And now we're just about complete it I showed you two methods in Lightroom and
• 07:32 one method and Photoshop
• 07:33 on how to remove the yellow stains and brighten up your teeth
• 07:37 in Photoshop and Lightroom.

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