Removing braces in CS

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Shari_Gordon
Apr 6, 2004
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im working on a a clients senior pictures and am trying to find the best method for removing braces, im an advanced photoshop user but im kinda stumped on how to do this and make it look right, any tips, guides, tuturial links would be much appreciated, thanks!!

and yea clone/healing tool works, but just looks like fake..

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Robert_Levine
Apr 6, 2004
You’ll need the orthodontist filter. <g>

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. You could have someone with a smile very similar to the subject pose for a photo and then clone the teeth from there.

Bob
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Shari_Gordon
Apr 6, 2004
hmm not a bad idea, heh and yes a orthodontist filter would be useful hehe
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Carl Wiles
Apr 6, 2004
how about finding a picture of the subject before they had braces? thats what i could do.

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im working on a a clients senior pictures and am trying to find the best
method for removing braces, im an advanced photoshop user but im kinda stumped on how to do this and make it look right, any tips, guides, tuturial links would be much appreciated, thanks!!
and yea clone/healing tool works, but just looks like fake..
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Phosphor
Apr 6, 2004
Try this, Shari.

Go to Google’s Advanced Image Search <http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en>, and filter for large file-size images (Mo’ Data = Mo’ Bettah’!). Now look for decent celebrity photos, someone with teeth similar to your original subject, and posed at a similar angle. Shoot, you might even search just for ‘teeth" and/or "dentist" and/or "smile" Grab the photo, bring it into your document, and clone from that.
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Shari_Gordon
Apr 6, 2004
ok i used a method similar to eye swapping, if your familiar with doing that it work out really good, im please, i used the teeth of another client in a similar pose, then i copied the "good" teeth over onto a layer above the pic i was working on, turn the opacity of the new teeth to 50% and lined them up, once they were lined up i brought the opacity back up and completely covered the teeth layer with a black layer mask so they werent visible at all, then i drew back over the same layer with white(or maybe i got my colors backwards heh) and drew the teeth back in till they matched the original teeth but covered the braces, very please with it but it is kinda time consuming…i only recomend this for ppl with time on their hands and an artistic eye..
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Robert_Levine
Apr 6, 2004
i only recomend this for ppl with time on their hands and an artistic eye..

That could be said for just about anything in Photoshop. <g>

I’m glad you got the result you were looking for.

Bob

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