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The Final View

Step 1

First, I wanted to raise the overall Contrast of the image. This was simply done by opening the Brightness % Contrast menu from the Image tab. I lowered the Brightness by -12 and raised the contrast 9. I clicked Ok to confirm this and it gave my image a slight boost in contrast which was a good start

Step 2: Brighten the teeth

I noticed this gave the teeth in the image a slight yellowish hue. Wanting to retouch this area before I proceeded, I made a selection around the teeth with the Lasso Selection Tool and copied and pasted this selection onto a new layer.  With the teeth layer selected, I selected the Hue & Saturation menu from the Image tab. I lowered the Saturation of this layer by -40 and raised the Brightness slightly by 4. This lightened the teeth for me not creating a distracting element from the cherry.

  Using the Eraser Tool, I then simple erased out the lips and cherry on this layer that happened to get desaturated in the process, leaving just the teeth exposed on this layer.

  And to increase the vibrancy in the cherry, I selected my original image’s layer again. Using the Lasso Selection Tool, I made a selection around the cherry and pasted it onto a new layer. I opened the Hue & Saturation menu again but this time I raised the Saturation of the cherry by 12, lowered the Brightness by -12, and slid the Hue slider over to the left to the -6 mark. This gave the cherry a very bright red color that I desired.

 And finally, I bumped up the Saturation in the original background image some more. I selected the green background area directly behind the cherry area and pasted it onto a new layer. I then raised this selection’s Saturation by 21. This created a deeper saturated green hue to the area giving great contrast to the red in the cherry making it pop even further, and I was done.

By selectively increasing and decreasing the saturation levels in certain parts of your photographs, you can quickly make the important elements in your pictures stand out.

Final Result

Source: Aviary.com

Step 5: Increase the saturation

Step 4: Make the cherry more vibrant

Step 3: Use Eraser to fix up your layers