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| Input/Output/Workflow Scanning, printing, color management, and discussing best practices for control and repeatability |
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| What is your method of whitening eyes and teeth? I've been making selections, copy layer of the selection, desaturating, masking out what I don't want real quick, then lowering the opacity to make it look realistic and not over done. What is your way of going about it? I'm not unhappy with mine, but I feel that there might be a better way(as there probably is for most things). |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet i make a seperate layer and paint white on soft light and raise or lower the opacity according to what you feel is good, pretty wuick and simple fix, sometimes if the teeth are actually stained, i dodge them a bit before painting the white layer. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet In most cases, I use a hue/saturation adjustment layer. You can brighten by sliding the lightness slider to the right. Teeth a very commonly yellow. Remove the yellow by selecting yellow in the edit box, and the move the saturation slider to the left. This will remove the only the yellow. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet For whitening eyes, soft light layer is my go to method.. For whitening the teeth I'll often use the same technique. If they're too yellow I'll use a color correction layer with the soft light layer. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet Usually I mask the parts the needs to be corrected and then play with correcting the color to look it more realistic thats for me the simplest way :-) |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet A method I use about 90% of the time is to select the teeth using Quick Mask, Feather the selection about 2 pixels and copy to a new layer. Then I do a Levels Adjustment moving the black point of the output slider (left end of bottom slider) to the right about 10-30 units. Works very well. Eyes can be done the same way. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet I sometimes create a selection, copy it to a new layer and then use curves to up the lightness, then paint back in using a mask |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet Duwayne, why are you adding the extra step of feathering? You should just use a soft brush in QM, surely? |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet Quote:
... don't waste your time with an Adjustment layer. Just loosely select the teeth with Quick Mask and go straight to Hue/Sat. Remember, your Quick Mask doesn't have to be accurate at all, because lips and gums won't be affected by a yellow adjustment. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet I don't know why you feel an adjustment layer is a waste of time. It does not take any additional time to do it this way, and by using an adjustment layer, my adjustment is non-destructive. In addition, I can re-open the adjustment and change the setting any time I like, or turn the adjustment off, or even discard it, if I don't want it any more. Ever wish you could undo an adjustment that you did 30, 40, or more steps ago? With an adjustment layer, you can. I rarely make an adjustment any other way. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet I'm not suggesting Adjustment layers are a waste of time per se. I use them, though not as often as most. I'm saying that an adjustment layer for teeth is a waste of time. If I used an adjustment layer for every tiny edit that I made, my document would be a quagmire of layers. Another thing - I'm sick of this "adjustment layers are non-destructive" nonsense. Of course they're non-destructive while the image exists only in Photoshop, but eventually they need to be applied so the image can be used in the "real world" - ie web or printing. At that point, the "destruction" occurs. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet i tried the davve Cox method today and it was a way quicker more accurate fix on yellow teeth- dave Rocks! |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet I'm another user of method Dave described. I learned it from a Scott Kelby a video borrowed from the library. re: Layer quagmire potential I know what you mean, Damo... It happens to me when I get lazy and don't label layers. It's a matter of workflow preferences and in my case wanting assurance I can make adjustments after the fact. I do in fact merge layers at certain points in a project to maintain layer sanity. It just depends. ======== re: whitening eyes * Add an adjustment layer (makes no difference which kind) * Change layer blend mode from Normal to Screen * Ctrl + I to invert the mask * Airbrush white on mask where needed Ultimate flexibility with mask; no increase in file size when using an adjustment layer. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet I find the Hue/Sat. method that Dave mentioned gives the most realistic results because it leaves some yellow color in there. While there's no right way this is what works best for me. As far as selecting, if you use an adj. layer you can click the mask button and paint in where you need the adjustment (much like quickmask) , and you can change that later if you want. For eyes I use a masked curves adj. layers to click up a curve for eye's and will take the red curve in to reduce any redness in the eye. Also the info palette is a must to determine any color cast in the eye's. Quote:
I love using adjustment layers because here great to come back later and re adjust and re tweak later.Some people don't like em and thats fine, but I wouldn't recommend them being a waste of time. Last edited by AdamZx3; 12-23-2007 at 09:56 PM. |
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| Re: What is your method of whitening eyes and teet Come on, let's not be naive. Eventually those PSDs are flattened by InDesign (at the point of PDF for output), at which point the adjustments are applied, and the gaps in the 8-bit histogram become reality. I'm not saying it's a good thing - I hate those gaps as much as anyone. But I'm not labouring under the misapprehension that "adjustment layers keep me safe". |
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