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How to Whiten Teeth in Adobe Photoshop
10 Comments | Posted by Kelvin Servigon in Photoshop Tutorials
You can be really beautiful in just few clicks using Adobe Photoshop. Your dream face can be real (but virtually – which is not real at all) in Photoshop. And now, I’ll be teaching you a new trick, How to whiten your teeth in Adobe Photoshop.
First, open up Adobe Photoshop (any version will do) and your photo that you’ll going to manipulate.
In this tutorial, I used a photo of my friend which I photographed from our last pictorial. Her name is Mikhaila. Say hello to her here.
As you can see, our model’s teeth is a bit yellowish. But if her teeth is whiter, then it’s better. So we need to follow some simple (very simple) steps that I’ll write here on my post.
After opening your photo, select the Brush Tool. You can see it on the tool box at the left side of the Photoshop or just hit the “B” key on your keyboard.
Next, select a white foreground color and change the mode of the brush to overlay and 30% opacity. We need this setting because we don’t want to overdo the teeth whitening. Because once we overdid it, the photo will became unrealistic. (See photo above)
After that, you’ll do the most important step, the teeth whitening! Using your brush, stroke the brush to the teeth. You’ll see the changes as you stroke the brush to the teeth. Again, avoid overdoing it. (See photo above)
Next to that step is… nothing! You’re done! Yeah, as simple and easy as that.
In the comparison of before and after photos above, you’ll see only few changes in her teeth because I didn’t overdid it. Again, I’ll mention the important note in this tutorial : don’t overdo it.
10 Comments for How to Whiten Teeth in Adobe Photoshop
louie | December 21, 2009 at 2:54 am
TSI | December 21, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Pare i’m not good into this, hehe..thanks for the tips.
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Amor | December 22, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Thanks for sharing. It’s almost similar to the technique that I use din. I just select the teeth using any of the lasso tool, fill with color white, overlay, and change opacity.
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Kelvin Servigon Reply:
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Hindi ako palagamit ng lasso tool, kaya hindi ko alam yung technique mo na yan. Hehe. Pero kahit anong way naman pwede, basta ganun din kalalabasan, diba? Hehe.
Heather Kephart | December 23, 2009 at 1:02 am
Cool, Kelvin! And thanks for not using my yellow teeth in your example lol
I use Paint Shop Pro because I’m an old dog, but I’m sure this tute will help a ton of people.
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Kelvin Servigon Reply:
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 am
I haven’t heard of Paint Shop Pro before but looks interesting.
You have yellow teeth? I didn’t noticed, really. If I noticed that before, I’ll use yours! Hahaha, if I did that, maybe you’ll beat me! LOL.
Jena Isle | December 23, 2009 at 2:01 am
Smile, ako din,pa puti ng ipin…he he he….what about pampatangos ng ilong, meron ba iyon? he he he. Meri Krismas.
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Kelvin Servigon Reply:
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Tagalog na tagalog ang koment ah.
Meron din po pampatangos ng ilong! Hehe, kaso medyo mahirap na ‘yun, pero posible.
Meri Krismas din po!









i use another method on that…
duplicate the picture layer and erase the whole top layer except the teeth part… using dodge tool, brush it your way until the desired whiteness is achieved.. then lower the opacity of the whitened layer a little bit to adapt the original textures… then that’s it… and you are correct.. don’t over do it! (lol) nice tutorial!
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Kelvin Servigon Reply:
December 21st, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Yeah, always remember, don’t overdo it! LOL. Your way is nice btw. Thank you!
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