Please Give Critique of Retouched Portrait

[everettr]

Greetings all!

I am an intermediate Photoshop user, and I could really use your opinion on a challenging retouch project that I'm doing pro bono for a friend.

The original and retouched portrait are shown side by side here:
http://www.racheleverett.com/pleasehelpme.jpg (optimized to 596k)

In particular, I could really use some advice on how to make his smile appear more natural. As you can see, I replaced the subject's teeth and altered their lips. To make the teeth look more natural, I applied a gradient shadow to the back teeth. But, the back teeth still don't look totally natural.

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

Rachel

[Out_Of_Focus]

here is a real good tut on whitening teeth try it
it helped me alot
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/...ning-teeth.htm

[irshgrlkc]

I like what you've done so far, it kind of reminds me of the way they treat some of the Saturday Night Live photos. Two things that I would address: 1) His left arm looks strange and cut off and 2) There is a lot of noise in the jacket that needs reducing.

Here's a quick (messy and perspective off) example of my suggestions. It will take a little fiddling, but you should be able to use his right arm to recreate the left arm.

[everettr]

irshgrlkc and Out_Of_Focus,

Thanks very much for your helpful advice!

Rachel