Meet Evoto, a new AI-powered image editor
There is a big hype about AI image editing software at the moment. Love it or hate it AI (artificial intelligence) is seeping into virtually every piece of software available. From strictly digital art creation to sky replacement and skin softening, it’s appearing and making our life easier as photographers. Or so they claim.
Meet Evoto
I was recently asked to give Evoto a trial. I actually enjoy the editing process, but even I sometimes just want to get in, get something edited and be done. Evoto seemed pretty good for just this purpose. Loads of tech-savvy AI tools to make portrait editing a breeze.
Portrait Retouching
Auto detects the subject’s face, gender and age
AI imperfection removal tools, plus full control when you want it
Dedicated AI face resculpting and reshaping
Realistic digital makeup
Background adjustments
AI Sky replacement (if there is a sky)
Clean backdrop in one click (love this feature)
AI headshot background changer (a bit clunky)
Advanced color editing
All the basic tools you need and expect (exposures, tone, contrast, HSL, Curves and more)
Smooth processing
Live preview as well as before and after
Exclusive presets
It’s just not an AI software program without some exclusive presets, but I did really like some of these.
Batch Processing
You can sync all your settings and batch process in a folder. Not sure you want to do every photo in a folder, but you can also use the star rating, as well as copy and paste settings.
Below is a sample of images edited only with AI, I didn’t dive deep into the panels at all. I did re-crop and resize in Photoshop, as I couldn’t quite figure out HOW to resize in Evoto.
My thoughts
I actually really like the app. It’s clean and easy to use, has powerful AI tools and did a terrific job very quickly. I adore the Highend Preset for portraits and loved the background cleanup feature. I just wish it did a better job on background removal or working with messy backgrounds. It has limited export features.
So where did it all fall down? The pricing. The weird pricing structure is based on the number of photos you export. Sure the pricing could be calculated into your business model, but if you are just starting out or a hobbyist…well, it’s kind of pricy. A monthly fee of $7.99 (I believe USD) for 100 photos. Not bad you might think, but say, you roughly export 750 photos per month. Perhaps you travel, or 10 clients a week at 20 photos each, for a month? That’s easily 750 photos — that’s $49.99 a month. If you have 7,500 photos a month, that’s $375.00. Sorry, but that just gets a little out of my pricing range.
