Retouch Teeth Tool

The Retouch Teeth tool in Capture One automatically detects the teeth in your portrait and provides simple controls to enhance their appearance. This feature helps brighten and desaturate teeth for a more even and natural-looking tone—perfect for polishing smiles without over-editing.

Contents

• What is Retouch Teeth?
• Retouch Teeth sliders
• Using Retouch Teeth in a Style or a Preset
• FAQ

What is Retouch Teeth?

The Retouch Teeth tool enhances portraits by targeting and improving the look of teeth automatically. It adjusts two key properties:

• Brightening: Increases the overall lightness of the teeth to create a cleaner, more polished appearance.
• Desaturation: Reduces excess color, especially yellow tones, for a more neutral and natural result.

Darker or more saturated areas of the teeth are affected slightly more than lighter areas, which results in a balanced, even tone across the entire smile.

Retouch Teeth sliders

The tool includes two sliders:

• Brightness: Controls the intensity of whitening.
• Desaturation: Reduces color saturation to neutralize yellowing.

Both adjustments are applied automatically to the detected teeth area, with more impact on the darker and more saturated regions for natural-looking results.

Using Retouch Teeth in a Style or a Preset

To reuse your Retouch Teeth settings across different images, save them as a Preset. Open the Preset menu and choose Save Custom Preset…, then select the Retouch Teeth sliders you want and click Save. You can then apply this Preset to other images via the same menu.

Retouch Teeth adjustments can also be saved as part of a Style. Open the Styles and Presets tool, click the ellipsis (•••) icon, and choose Save Custom Style. Select the Retouch Teeth sliders will be unified into Teeth Whitening adjsutment. You can then save the Style for use with future edits.

FAQ

Can I adjust individual teeth or apply the effect manually?

No, the Retouch Teeth tool works automatically on detected teeth and does not support manual masking or individual selection.

Will this remove stains or damage?

No, it enhances the overall tone but does not remove specific marks or textures. For that, consider using additional retouching tools.

Why aren’t the results uniform?

The tool is designed to apply stronger adjustments to darker or more saturated areas, which may lead to varying results depending on lighting and original tooth color. Adjust the sliders to fine-tune the result.