Digital Home Thoughts: New Photoshop Plug-ins - PearlyWhites and ShineOff

"PearlyWhites - Bleaching your teeth is both expensive and likely not a healthy solution for having white teeth in photos. Color correction is a much more cost effective solution and it works on everyone with no trips to the dentist. There are ways to achieve white teeth in Photoshop through a combination of built-in tools, but I find it much faster to use a plugin built specifically for the task of making teeth white. Enter PearlyWhites from Image Trends.

ShineOff - If you've ever noticed unnaturally shiny skin in your photos, you may have also wondered how the heck you can fix it. This is usually caused by a combination of slight perspiration from the person reflecting the harsh light of a camera flash back at the image sensor. In extreme cases, shiny skin may be due to solarization in the image. While you can avoid this altogether using diffused light, sometimes you need a fix. ShineOff is among the best plugins I've tried for removing shine from skin tones of all hues."



You can read about ShineOff and PearlyWhites here, which contain links to where you can download them. Nice plugins and I can both being incredibly useful tools when you are post-processing you images in your digital darkroom. Although this brings up the interesting question -- if you can adjust hues and whiten teeth, among all the other post-processing that is possible these days, at what point do your photographs not represent you anymore?