Jun 12 2007

Cheaper than a dentist: Photoshop teeth-whitening filter

Austin, Texas-based Image Trends plans to release new Photoshop plug-ins Tuesday that automate two common tasks for cosmetic retouching of digital photos: whitening teeth and removing skin glare.

Image Trends' plug-ins whiten teeth and reduce skin glare.

Image Trends' plug-ins whiten teeth and reduce skin glare

(Credit: Image Trends)

The company's PearlyWhites and ShineOff plug-ins cost $49.95 each. The plug-ins work on Windows, but Mac OS X versions will be available later.

The filters can operate in a batch mode, allowing Photoshop users to edit large groups of images in bulk. The PearlyWhites plug-in doesn't need to be told where teeth are located--the often-laborious selection process. Instead, it applies its changes to white areas that it finds surrounded by flesh tones, said Michael Conley, vice president of marketing and sales.

The company also plans to release the Mac OS X version of a plug-in called Fisheye-Hemi that converts the distorted view of a fish-eye lens into a perspective more familiar to human eyes. That plug-in costs $29.95.

Image Trends was formed from the core members of the former Applied Science Fiction Group, now Kodak's Austin Development Center, the company said.

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how does it discern...
by invisible21 June 12, 2007 11:22 PM PDT
between shiny skin and teeth? Seems to me if, as the article states, the teeth whitening plug-in automatically brightens areas of white surrounded by flesh-tones, it would also brighten the shiny areas of the skin, making them worse. Does this mean you have to use their shiny-skin reducing plug-in after you use the teeth-whitening one?
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Umm, teeth-whitener and eye-whitener and....
by FroZone June 13, 2007 10:24 AM PDT
Big wow. It also whitens her earrings and her eyes. Not a very smart algorithm.
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Another skeptic
by Visualdude June 13, 2007 11:22 AM PDT
I was looking at the white earring that doesn't seem to have changed, or the white of the eye as another posting pointed out. On top of that, since the teeth are surrounded by lipstick, how did it know? I don't doubt that it works, but I would have been more convinced had the images been from the reporter, rather than the vendor. There is also something overall different about the face between the images, though the change seems a benefit. Seems like a decent price for plugins this useful.
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TOOTH WHITENING
by timdean June 13, 2007 11:36 PM PDT
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What about truth?
by RenoDavid June 13, 2007 11:46 PM PDT
Heaven forbid that we'd actually have a photo that is a truthful representation of reality!
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