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Welcome to the next lesson in photo retouching.

We're going from eyes to teeth.

We'll be practicing with this photo of a lovely model with vibrance hair.

I'll show you how to brighten her smile by whitening her teeth digitally,

and we'll be doing this in just a few simple steps.

This is a technique that really comes in handy with low light or warm light photos,

where teeth come out more dark and yellow than they actually are.

If I'm sharing a business team photo to my blog,

I might just do a little tweaking first to make sure all

of our smiles are equally vibrance. Let's learn how.

In the Class Assets folder,

go ahead and open the teeth.jpg.

I'm just going to drag it into Photoshop.

I pressed F once to get to full screen,

so there's nothing distracting in the background.

First things first, go over here to

your Layers panel and make sure your background layer is selected,

and we're going to go ahead and make a copy of that.

You can duplicate your layer two ways.

First, you can click it and drag it into this Add New Layer box and release.

It's made a copy of that layer,

or you can simply have your layer selected and hit Control J on your keyboard,

which duplicates the layer.

This is the one I usually do because I'm obsessed with keyboard shortcuts.

The first thing we're going to do with this duplicate layer

is open up hue and saturation.

You can get there by going to Image,

Adjustments, Hue and Saturation,

or by hitting Command U on your keyboard.

I want the shade of her teeth to match the shade of the whites of their eyes.

I want to remove some of that saturation,

so click that scrubber and bring it a little bit more to the left.

As you can see,

the entire image got desaturated but we'll mask that back in later.

Go ahead and press OK,

and now it's time to add the layer mask.

Make sure that Layer 1 is selected.

It's our desaturated layer,

and then go down here and click Add layer mask.

Now what we're going to do is paint back in the rest of that image.

Go back here to the set foreground color

and make sure that black is that foreground color,

and remember, you can get that by toggling these arrows

back and forth to switch the foreground and background color.

If you happen to have a random color in here,

just press D on your keyboard and that will set the default colors.

I'm going to make sure that black is in the foregrounds,

and I'm going to select my Paint Bucket over here on the left,

you can also get there by pressing G on your keyboard.

If you have a different tool selected here like Gradient,

just go ahead and click and hold on

that Paint Bucket and select it down here, it's the middle one.

Taking a quick peek up here,

my blending mode is normal,

Opacity is at 100, perfect,

I'm just going to click anywhere in that image.

Cool, it looks like we're right back to where we started,

but what we're actually going to do now is paint in

this teeth area right on the mask to get

that desaturated layer behind it to show through.

Make sure your mask is selected and this time we're going

to switch that toggle so that white is the foreground color.

I'm going to press Z on my keyboard,

and then click and drag again to get a nice close-up.

Now opening my Brush tool,

which is B, you can also get here on the toolbar.

Opacity is at a 100,

blending mode is normal,

brush hardness as at about 18,

that looks pretty good, now it's the fun part.

You can just click and paint that back in over the teeth.

I'm just going to click, draw in here.

If I get the gums, it's not going to matter because again,

we're using this mask.

If I over paint any areas,

I can go back later and fix it.

Now I'm going to switch so that black is

my foreground color and make my brush a little bit smaller.

You can get there by hitting the left parentheses a couple times.

Now I'm just going to paint back in those areas

of the gums that I made a little bit too desaturated.

This is why I use masks so often.

Nothing is permanent, you can always paint things back in and out.

If you erase too much,

you can always get it back in later.

This is going to be a two-step process.

We've done the first step,

which is removing the saturation here was before and after.

Now it's time for the second step,

which is to brighten the teeth.

Let me zoom in so you can see a little bit.

Right now they're looking a little bit gray,

so what I want to do is brighten them.

To do that, I'm going to click the Layer thumbnail,

make sure that the Layer thumbnail is selected, not the mask.

With my Layer thumbnail selected,

I'm going to go to my levels, which is Command L,

and I'm going to take this toggle on the far

right and just slide it over to the left a bit.

If you watch your teeth,

you can see that this is really brightening them.

I think that was a little bit too much,

so I'm going to bring it back to the right end smudge,

and then I'm going to take my middle toggle and move it a little bit to the left as well.

Cool, press OK. Now not only do we have the desaturated teeth,

we've removed that yellow,

but now we also have much brighter teeth as well.

Let me fit to screen again and show you the before and the after.

It's a much brighter smile.

Another trick before we end this lesson is whenever I brighten teeth like this,

I also want to brighten the whites of the eyes to match a little bit.

It doesn't have to be equal brightness because the eyes have more shadows coming in,

but we can brighten them a little bit without

too much extra work because we already have done all the legwork here.

Select your mask, I'm going to zoom in

a little bit more and make sure your mask is selected.

Let's go back to our brush tool, which is B,

and I'm going to adjust my Opacity from 100 down to about 50.

The detail is perfect, and now same thing.

With my Brush tool, I'll just click and draw in the whites of those eyes a little bit.

The other one, cool.

It's not too much of a difference on those eyes,

I'll show you the before and the after,

but it does help balance out when we brighten her teeth to such an extreme.

I'm going to go ahead and save this as Teeth-Retouched.

I'm going to put it in my edited folder that I just made,

make sure it's saved as a Photoshop file,

and now I'm going to save it as a flattened JPEG.

Same thing, it's called Teeth-Retouched,

and I'm just going to change it to a JPEG,

it's in that same folder and press Save.

Awesome, that one was pretty simple,

let's go onto our next retouching.