Teeth & Eye Whitening :: Curriculum

Digital Photography Model

Units:

Teeth & Eye Whitening

Part of Unit: Portrait Retouching in PhotoShop CS

Lesson Plan Overview / Details

Make your portraits pop with a dazzling smile and clear seductive eyes. In this lesson the student will learn two methods for whitening teeth and improving eyes using Adobe Photoshop software.

Just for fun: Have students take the online interactive quiz where students rate video clips of 20 smiles and whether they are "fake" or "real."

Lesson Time

Whitening Teeth & Eyes: 45 - 90 Minutes

Standards

California Career and Technical Education Standards

Objectives and Goals

Students will use Adobe Photoshop software to whiten, improve and/or enhance teeth and the whites of the eyes in a digital portrait.

Activities in this Lesson

Online Interactive 'Real or Fake' Smile Quiz - Hooks / Set
Fun opening activity--have students take the online interactive quiz where they rate whether a person’s smile is real or fake. There are 20 video clips to rate – students can review their results at the end, discuss and compare their findings.

Discuss the interactive online quiz – how they determined whether someone had a “real” or a “fake” smile (usually through the eyes) and how they rated.

Display the Smile_Montage.jpg file while demonstrating this lesson.

Discuss the appeal of a great smile and how teeth whitening fits into professional portrait photography (making everyone look the best they can)

Both these links lead to the same quiz:

How to spot a fake smile – an interactive quiz.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

NOTE: Be aware that the video clips sometimes take time to load.
- smile_montage.jpg [ View Image ] [ Download Original ] This is the image used in the lecture/demo portion of the lesson.
- Whiten_Teeth.jpg [ View Image ] [ Download Original ] This is the image file used in the student assignment/lab activity.
Whiten Teeth & Eyes Lecture Notes - Lecture
Lecture notes available as a Word or PDF document.
- Whiten teeth lecture notes.doc [ Download ] Word version of lecture notes.
- Whiten teeth lecture notes.pdf [ Download ] PDF version of lecture notes.
Whiten Teeth & Eyes Student Assignment - Projects
Activity/Lab exercise in both Word and PDF versions. Includes an 'On Your Own' assessment activity.
- Whitening Teeth Assignment.doc [ Download ] Word version of student assignment.
- Whitening Teeth Assignment.pdf [ Download ] PDF version of student assignment.
- Whiten_Teeth.jpg [ View Image ] [ Download Original ]