Evoto AI

Evoto is desktop retouching software for people who photograph faces for a living. You fix one portrait (blemishes, skin tone, flyaway hair, glare on glasses, wrinkled clothes, a messy backdrop) and it applies the same fixes across the whole set. It also culls shoots, matches colour across a gallery and round-trips with Lightroom Classic. Version 8.0 in September 2026 added culling that groups a wedding into its story, plus a video retouching plugin for DaVinci Resolve.

Use it if you deliver lots of retouched portraits: corporate headshots, school photos, weddings and events. Lightroom and Photoshop can do all of this by hand, and tools like Imagen or Aftershoot handle culling and colour, but Evoto is the one photographers name for fast, adjustable skin and face cleanup at volume. Many use Imagen or Aftershoot for the first pass and Evoto only for the portraits that need retouching.

The catch is the credit model: editing is free, but every edited photo you export costs a credit, so busy photographers feel the cost. In January 2026 it also briefly launched an AI headshot generator aimed at the photographers' own clients, then pulled it and apologised. Some photographers still don't trust it.

• Headshot photographers
• Wedding photographers
• School and event photographers
• Studios

Portrait, headshot, school and wedding photographers who retouch hundreds of faces a week.

• Portrait retouching

  Sliders for blemishes, skin tone, under-eye bags, teeth, stray hairs and face shape, so you control how much is changed.

• Batch sync

  Retouch one photo and copy the face, background, clothing, crop and colour fixes to hundreds of others in one go.

• Glasses glare and backdrops

  Removes reflections from glasses, smooths wrinkled or stained backdrops, and swaps in clean or white backgrounds.

• AI culling

  Flags blurry and closed-eye shots, groups near duplicates and, since version 8.0, sorts a wedding into story chapters.

• Colour matching

  Copy the look of a reference photo or apply AI colour looks so a whole gallery matches.

• Lightroom and video

  Send photos to and from Lightroom Classic, and retouch faces in video through a DaVinci Resolve plugin.

• Free

  Free

  Testing it on a real shoot.

  • A small one-off allowance of free credits
  • All editing tools
  • Unedited exports are always free

• Pay as you go

  From $49 for 200 credits

  Occasional portrait jobs.

  • No subscription
  • Credits last two years
  • Bigger packs cost less per photo

• Starter

  $89/yr

  Part-time photographers.

  • 800 credits a year
  • Unused credits roll over when you renew
  • First-year discount often offered
• Our pick

  Basic Plus

  $269/yr

  Working portrait and wedding photographers.

  • 3,600 credits a year
  • Cheaper add-on credit packs
  • Use on up to four devices

• Standard

  $579/yr

  Busy studios and school photographers.

  • 9,000 credits a year
  • Lower cost per photo
  • Rollover on renewal

• Enterprise

  Custom

  Large studios and volume businesses.

  • Volume pricing
  • Onboarding support
  • Multiple users

Prices in USD unless noted, checked 21 October 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on their site before you buy.

Ways Evoto AI can slot into your week.

1. 1

   Team headshots in an afternoon

   Retouch one person's photo, sync the skin, glare and backdrop fixes across the whole team, then check each face and export.

2. 2

   Wedding portrait cleanup

   Cull the day with story grouping, then retouch only the bride, groom and family portraits that need it.

3. 3

   School and event photo days

   Batch hundreds of portraits with the same crop, background and colour settings so the set looks consistent.

4. 4

   Fix glasses and wrinkles

   Remove glare and clothing creases that would otherwise mean a reshoot or a long Photoshop session.

Evoto sits between your camera and your delivery. Most photographers cull and colour in Lightroom, Imagen or Aftershoot, send portraits to Evoto for retouching, then deliver through their usual gallery. It also works on its own if you don't use Lightroom.

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