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Home / Photo Editing / Luminar Photo Editing Software / Luminar AI Face Retouching – Editing the Mouth, Lips, and Teeth

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Luminar AI Face Retouching – Editing the Mouth, Lips, and Teeth

May 2, 2021 by Darlene Hildebrandt

Updated: January 4, 2022

With Luminar AI face retouching tools built into the software, editing the mouth, lips, and teeth of your portrait subjects has become SUPER easy! In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to quickly and easily retouch the mouth and lips and do teeth whitening where required.

I used to do this in Lightroom, and you can do it with Photoshop as well, but with Luminar AI (aff) it only takes a click or two and working with some sliders.

Watch me do face retouching in this short tutorial below.

In this Luminar AI tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the Lips Saturation, Lips Darkening, Lips Redness, and Teeth Whitening sliders inside the Face AI panel.

I use two different portraits to demonstrate how you can use the face retouching tools on different faces. A white model wearing makeup and a lady from India with no makeup provide different skin tones and scenarios so will see how Luminar AI performs.

You want to keep the final photo looking as natural and realistic as possible, depending on the situation.

You’ll not only learn how to do it correctly, but also what NOT to do. I will demonstrate both for you so you know what to avoid as well.

AI Photo Editing: Read my review of Luminar Neo, the next generation photo editing using AI. It’s an industry game changer. If you’ve already got it, enrolling in my Luminar Neo course should be able to get you up and editing in days instead of weeks. Check it out.

Cheers,

Darlene Hildebrandt photographer DPM

About Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt, Master of Photographic Arts (MPA), is a Canadian photography educator and the founder of Digital Photo Mentor. She holds Canada's highest professional photography designation from Professional Photographers of Canada, served as Managing Editor of Digital Photography School, and represented Canada on Team Canada at the 2025 World Photographic Cup. With over 35 years of experience, from darkroom film retouching to modern digital editing, more than 17,000 students have learned to edit with confidence through her structured online courses in Luminar Neo and Lightroom Classic and the Digital Photo Mentor Community.

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