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Remove a Gap in Teeth

Lesson 43 from: Learn How to Use Photoshop Elements

Khara Plicanic

Remove a Gap in Teeth

Lesson 43 from: Learn How to Use Photoshop Elements

Khara Plicanic

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Lesson Info

43. Remove a Gap in Teeth

Next Lesson: How to Whiten Teeth

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Class Trailer
1

Class Introduction

02:57
2

Understand How Elements Works

05:53
3

Importing Images

11:31
4

Workspace Basics: Organizer

14:47
5

Workspace Basics: Editor

16:12
6

Tonal Adjustments in Quick Fix

09:59
7

Color Adjustments in Quick Fix

07:58
8

Apply Black & White Filters

04:01
9

Sharpen an Image

03:33
10

Fix Red Eye & Pet Eye

03:05
11

Straighten an Image in Quick Fix

03:01
12

Explanation of Photoshop Elements

08:23
13

Basic Cropping in Quick Fix

14:13
14

Guided Edit Overview

02:46
15

Guided Edit: Tilt Shift

04:07
16

Ways to Save Files

14:37
17

Layers & Simple Selections

20:47
18

Combine Images with Layers

15:34
19

How to Use Layer Styles

15:11
20

Make Selections with Layers

11:05
21

Make Selection with Lasso

10:43
22

Compositing with Multiple Images

17:11
23

Refine Edge Selection on Image

19:52
24

Use Refine Edge on Images

12:40
25

Create Gradient in Image

02:35
26

Gradient Map Differences

42:38
27

Options for Saving

11:40
28

Brushes Overview

15:12
29

Creatively Use Brushes

07:19
30

How to Change Brush Settings

07:17
31

Use Shape Tool with Brushes

08:22
32

Work with Multiple Shape Layers

08:53
33

Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool

03:21
34

How to Load Brushes into Elements

04:59
35

Add Layer Style to Image

04:46
36

Clip Image to Shape & Use as Template

05:49
37

Retouching Overview

04:11
38

How to Use Content-Aware Fill

05:47
39

How to Use Content-Aware Move Tool

09:38
40

Spot Healing Brush on Blemishes

08:53
41

Remove Frown Lines with Retouching

05:51
42

How to Remove Tattoos

20:32
43

Remove a Gap in Teeth

03:52
44

How to Whiten Teeth

07:17
45

Adjust Facial Features

03:29
46

Working with Type Overview

23:17
47

Match Type for Image

12:11
48

How to Manipulate Type Layers

08:02
49

Create Postcard with Type

16:08
50

Add Type on a Path

16:59
51

Organizing Images in Elements

16:03
52

Add Keywords to Images

19:49
53

Smart Tags Overview

07:51
54

Using Albums in Elements

24:52
55

Places Workspace Overview

06:20
56

Use Event Tags on Images

04:56
57

Timeline for Image Organization

02:45
58

Recommended Workflow

07:26

Lesson Info

Remove a Gap in Teeth

We're gonna fix the gap in her teeth, just because it's a learning opportunity, not because there's anything wrong with having a gap. Madonna has a gap in her teeth, right? Geena Davis, maybe, too. My son has a little gap. So nothing wrong with the gap, but we're just going to do this because I wanna show you how you can do this, because it's a technique you can use for other things as well. So we've got this layer up here which was fixing the skin lines. This time I'm gonna go make a selection around each tooth. So I'll use the Quick Selection brush that we've been using for many things, and I'm just gonna click and select just this. And I think it's not gonna work because I'm on a blank layer. So let's target that background layer, where the tooth is, and click to select it. Now it went a little too far, remember we can fix that by holding down ALT or Options, selecting that, and I'm gonna copy this into it's own layer now. So if you remember from yesterday, we can copy the contents ...

of a selection into it's very own layer by pressing Command or Control + J. And I like to say because we're jacking it up (laughs). So here we've jacked up a copy. Now we don't really see it because it's so tiny here in the Layer panel preview, but we know it's there. We also don't see it here because it's directly on top of itself. So let's rename this. Left Tooth, I guess? It's her right tooth, but it's our left, so we'll call that Left Tooth, and I'll go back to the background layer and click to select this tooth. And I'll do the same keyboard shortcut, Command or Control + J, and this is the right tooth. Alright here. Okay. So here's what we can do, this is so easy that it's almost surprising. It's almost like, what! All we're gonna do is transform the teeth to be slightly wider and close up this gap. That's it. So I'm gonna press Command or Control + T on this right tooth layer, zoom in so we can see better. And then I'm really just gonna take this handle and drag halfway across like that. And commit it. We'll switch over to the left tooth layer, Command or Control + T, bring up Transform, and again, drag this way, so we're just reducing the gap right there, and commit. And I think that's good, we could really finesse this as much as we want, or maybe we could do Command or Control + T, we could right click, and we could choose Distort if I really wanted to pull this all the way over. If you bring up Free Transform and then you right click in there, you get some other options for transforming. In this case, Distort would allow me to grab just this corner and I could distort the tooth to really change the shape of it, but perfectly close that gap, I suppose, if I wanted to. And then when I accept the transformation, we see that it is indeed gone. So that actually looks, I think, pretty real. If I needed to, if the tooth somehow changed the lip line up here, and was overlaying the lip, I could just add a layer mask and paint with black to paint that back away. So in this case I don't think we need that, but it would be available if we wanted to.

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Patricia
 

Just watching this class live. It's my first class with Khara; she is a wonderful teacher, moving at a steady speed but always being careful to let us know what she's doing in the moment. I would classify myself as intermediate in terms of PSE but I've learned lots of little things that will make further use even easier and more fun. I really appreciated her descriptions of the difference between PS and PSE and her encouragement in using Photoshop Elements and all that it can do.

Lilygram
 

I have only been able to watch portions of this class but every single part that I have watched has been technically clear and inspiring to me. Based on this experience and the thorough, 58 item list of lessons, I will surely be buying this class soon! Thank you Khara and Creativelive for making a class on this topic and making it be super!!

Ven S
 

Great course. You can tell she knows the programme inside out.

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