Tooth whitening in PS - is this possible?

I am looking to use PS or some other program to preview results of tooth
whitening in a dental office. I am trying to replicate the following
procedure, for which specialized ($$$) programs exist:

(1) In a picture of a smile the program/plugin/procedure should be able to
*select the teeth area* automatically (by color or brightness - very
different from lips, gums, etc.).
(2) The user can then *manipulate* the color saturation, color balance on
the selection for the desired result.
(3) The selection can then be *combined* with the rest of the picture to be
viewed and printed.

Is this possible in PS - or using some plugin, procedure etc. I am a total
PS newbie, only recently bought a digital camera
I have seen past threads about manually doing this procedure.
What I am trying to avoid is the process of manually selecting the tooth
area, which is time consuming and imprecise.


Thanks very much for any suggestions.

 

Why go to all this trouble when you can very simple do a feathered
selection of the teeth, turn off the marching ants with Ctrl or CMD-H
and then do whatever you want with the tooth color.
Bernie

 

Thanks, I will follow this up.
I have not even installed PS yet, let alone learned how to use it

 

Don't discount the fact that, while tooth color is very different than
lips & gums when we look at them, several factors incl. ambient light
and reflections, can blur the differences to an amazing degree when
viewing/editing digital photographs. That would be a pretty complex
operation to be able to really accurately, automatically select and
adjust just teeth.

I'm afraid a manual selection using the pen tool, then convert path to
selection, feather 2px, is the best method.

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Jonny

“We do what we do because of who we are.

If we did otherwise, the we wouldn’t be ourselves.”

-Neil Gaiman, “Sandman”

 

duh?!

 

Thanks, this is useful.
What you suggest may very well be the case, but I have seen it done
automatically very well by dedicated software.
First I have to see if PS or another program has the programmability
necessary to do it.
Then I will tinker with the settings and see what happens.

 

I'm a hobbyist, not a professsional, but I am also an actor, and anytime
I submit a headshot, I whiten my teeth and eyes!!!

As a dentist, you'd probably recommend having the color adjustment made
directly to my teeth!

Being in the industry, you are probably aware of products designed for
just this purpose. But in my (limited) use of PS, I can't imagine an
automation technique like what you're talking about.

It puts me in mind of those kiosks where they take your picture and put
it on the body of Conan the Barbarian, or a Playboy model. They have
apparently gotten some sort of system for quick color correction of skin
tones so that heads and bodies will match. I saw once where a black man
had his head put on Conan's (Schwarzeneggar's) body, and with what
appeared to be a single click, the man's face was lightened to
(Practically) seamlessly match the skin tone of the body.

Sorry for the rambling -
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Jonny

“We do what we do because of who we are.

If we did otherwise, the we wouldn’t be ourselves.”

-Neil Gaiman, “Sandman”

 

I am not a dentist, my wife is.
And, there is special software that allows people to visualize all sorts of
changes without high-level computer skills.
Such as - filling gaps, straightening teeth etc.
They're just asking way too much for it.
There is similar software for orthodontics, plastic surgery, even hair
salons.
Thanks and good luck.

 

you can whiten teeth by lassoing them and feather under the select dropdown
about 2 px then go to image drop down and select brightness and contrast.
now to move teeth around your gonna have to go to the filter drop down and
use the liquify filter its kind of tricky at first but does amazing work.

 

/refers ben-dover to PapaBear and exits room.

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Jonny

“We do what we do because of who we are.

If we did otherwise, the we wouldn’t be ourselves.”

-Neil Gaiman, “Sandman”

 

Thanks very much, I will try it.

 

Thanks, I will look into it.