How to Remove Braces and Fix Teeth with AI in Photoshop

This guide will give you the easiest ways to remove braces or fix crooked teeth in Photoshop.

I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop for many years and often need to retouch portraits.

I’ve found that the Photoshop AI Generative Fill tool helps you edit portraits quickly and seamlessly.

Let’s dive into the tutorial.

How to use AI to Fix Teeth and Remove Braces in Photoshop in 3 Steps

We’ve all experienced teenage angst in one form or another. It’s common for teens to avoid letting one of their fantastic beaming smiles break free because of a mouth full of metal.

Personally, I think it’s super cute to have gleaming braces, but the person with the radiant metal smile is often self-conscious.

That’s where Photoshop AI comes to the rescue.

Removing braces from portraits used to be a tedious editing task involving a meticulous eye and a skilled hand.

Using the Clone tool, I have spent many hours painstakingly removing metal from mouths.

Now, we can use Photoshop’s AI Generative Fill tool to quickly smooth away any trace of the brace.

Photoshop’s Generative Fill tool is amazingly accurate. Using AI, it can discern where the edges of each tooth are.

It automatically adds shading and whitens teeth, providing three edit variations for you to choose from.

This works not only for braces but also for stained or crooked teeth.

Let’s get started.

Step 1 – Open the Image

Open the photo in Photoshop by heading to the main menu and selecting File > Open.

Locate the photo in your browser and click Open.

We are using a photo of a young woman with a classic infectious smile.

Make sure the version of Photoshop you are using has Generative Fill. Not all versions of Photoshop feature the Generative Fill tool.

Step 2 – Create a Selection

Once the image is open, you will need to create a selection around the teeth.

Head to the toolbar to the left of your canvas workspace and select the Lasso tool.

Alternatively, click L for the keyboard shortcut.

You can use your preferred Photoshop selection tool. But the Lasso tool is perfect for creating quick selections that don’t need to be precise.

You might want to zoom in to the canvas to make the best selection.

Select the Zoom tool from the toolbar (you’ll find it at the bottom underneath the hand tool). The Zoom tool’s icon is a circle with a line, like a small magnifying glass.

You can also access the Zoom tool using a keyboard shortcut. Hold down Command (for Macs) or Ctrl (for Windows), and click the + key to zoom in or the – key to zoom out.

Click on the area near the teeth and drag the cursor around the braces.

When you’ve created the selection, release the cursor.

A ring of marching ants, the active selection, will now surround the braces (or rotten or crooked teeth).

As you can see in the image above, the selection made around the teeth is not completely precise.

It includes areas of teeth, gums, and the girl’s inner mouth, not just the metal braces.

This is one of the beauties of working with Photoshop’s AI. Al is called intelligent for a reason!

Photoshop’s AI understands what’s required of it when given a precise prompt. It will deduce that the teeth are inside a mouth and thus will allow for included gum.

Using AI, you usually don’t have to worry about the excess areas included in a selection.

However, you will need to make sure you include all of the braces within the selection.

Photoshop will only edit the areas within the selection, so if part of the braces are outside the selection, they won’t be removed.

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Step 3 – Enter a Prompt

When the active selection has been created, the Contextual Task Bar will appear underneath the selection.

Click the Generative Fill button to open the Generative Fill bar.

If you are removing braces, enter the text prompt “Remove braces replace with white teeth” or similar in the prompt box.

Then click Generate.

Photoshop will begin removing the braces and generating pearly white teeth.

Sometimes, the Contextual Task Bar does not appear.

If this happens, head to Windows and scroll down the drop-down menu.

At the bottom of the menu, you’ll find Contextual Task Bar. If there is no tick beside Contextual Task Bar, it will not be displayed in the canvas workspace.

Click on Contextual Task Bar to activate the tick.

Step 4 – Select a Variation

A pop-up window will appear as Photoshop takes a few moments to remove the braces.

When Photoshop has finished removing the braces and generating a perfect set of teeth, a new layer will appear in the Layers panel.

The layer will have the same name as the text prompt.

You can turn this layer on, off, or delete without affecting the original background layer.

Photoshop will not generate only one set of new teeth. It will generate at least three variations.

To view each variation, click on the arrows in the Generative Fill bar.

Alternatively, head to the Properties panel and click on Variations.

Click on a variation here and it will be displayed in the canvas workspace.

Photoshop’s AI isn’t always spot on; sometimes, it might make a mistake.

In the example below, Photoshop’s Generative Fill has added a random speck of brown.

This wouldn’t be the hardest error to remove if you were dead set on using this version.

However, as Photoshop has generated two other close-to-flawless sets of teeth, we don’t need to use the variation above.

The third version is much better, with no blemishes, although the teeth stick out at an angle, making them appear slightly bucked.

If you don’t like any of the three versions or you are simply curious, you can hit the Generate button. Photoshop will rapidly generate another three variations.

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Step 5 – Flatten the Image

If you’re happy with one of the variations, flatten the image before saving.

Make sure that your preferred version is visible in the canvas workspace.

Then, head to the top menu bar and select Layers.

Scroll to the bottom of the menu bar that appears and click on Flatten Image.

In the Layers panel, you will notice there is now only one layer.

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Step 6 – Save the Image

The final step is saving the image.

Head to the top menu bar and select File, then from the drop-down menu, select Save a Copy.

The Save a Copy dialogue window will open.

If you wish to keep the original version with braces, save the new edited version under a new name.

Select the location where you wish to save the image, and in the box beside Format, select JPEG.

Now, hit the Save button in the bottom right-hand corner.

The brace-free image is now ready to be shared or sent to be printed.

Straighten Crooked Teeth

If you want to straighten crooked teeth or remove rotten ones, you can use the method above.

The only difference will be the text prompt you enter in the Generative Fill bar.

Entering the correct prompt can sometimes take trial and error.

As you will see below, we have a photo of brown crooked teeth, which we wish to replace with straight white teeth.

To do this, we enter the prompt, “Fix teeth” in the Generative Fill box.

The three variations that Photoshop creates indicate that Photoshop wants to represent that the teeth are in the process of being fixed.

Below, we have a set of teeth with braces.

The second variation involves the interesting technique of teeth stitching.

To be more specific, a new text prompt is entered, “Make perfect straight white teeth.”

The Generate button is hit, and new variations are created.

This time the mouth is filled with white teeth, which is what we’re looking for.

The lips and back teeth aren’t perfect in this instance, so we’ll keep using some trial and error to get it right.

As you can see, Photoshop’s AI isn’t picky about the selection you make. You don’t have to select only the teeth but can provide a rough indication of the area to be corrected.

However, the prompt you enter will make a big difference.

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial and find it helpful for editing teeth in the future.

If you enjoyed this tutorial, we’re sure you will also like – How to remove a double chin in Photoshop.

Adobe MAX 2024 Update

With the Adobe MAX 2024 update, the Generative Fill tool runs with the latest version of Adobe Firefly. It now offers more variety in the results and an overall improved photo realistic quality.

The update also improved the Generative Remove tool, which can also be useful for removing braces in Photoshop.

While not necessary relevant for this task, I’ll use this opportunity to share that the Remove tool also got a Distractions Removal feature to delete cables and wires from landscapes and people in the background of an image.

The Generative Expand tool is another helpful generative AI feature that allows you to resize your images in any direction by generating content beyond the frame.

FAQ

How do you remove braces from teeth in Photoshop?

There are a few ways to remove braces from teeth in Photoshop.

You can manually remove braces from images using the Brush or Clone tools. This method can be time-consuming.

Alternatively, you can use Photoshop’s AI Generative Fill tool. First, create a selection around the braces, then enter the text prompt, “Remove braces and fill teeth.”

Generative Fill will generate three different versions of new teeth to cover the braces.

Can AI remove braces?

Yes, AI can remove braces from photos. Photoshop’s AI Generative Fill tool will quickly remove braces.

How do you remove braces from photos?

You can use photo editing software such as Photoshop to remove braces from photos.

How do you fix teeth in Photoshop?

To fix teeth in Photoshop, you can either use manual Photoshop tools or Phtoshops AI tools.

To fix teeth manually, use a combination of the Clone and Brush tool.

To fix teeth using AI, use the Generative Fill tool. Create a selection and enter the prompt, “Make perfect straight white teeth.”