Evoto 8.0 ships AI portrait retouching for video

Evoto shipped Evoto 8.0 on September 22, adding AI portrait retouching for video and a paid creator marketplace, according to a press release the AI photo-editing company issued at its annual launch event in New York. The update covers Evoto's full lineup: Evoto Desktop, the Evoto App and Evoto Video.

Evoto Video's headline addition is an In-Workflow Retouching Plugin that runs Evoto's portrait retouching directly inside DaVinci Resolve, letting editors refine faces and skin without leaving the timeline, per the release. Digital Camera World, which covered the event, reported the plugin also reaches Adobe Premiere Pro. The tool tracks a face as it moves through hundreds of frames, and adds Hair Shine, teeth whitening, Facial Fullness and a Color Match feature that applies one reference image's color grade across a clip, according to the press release.

The company's Asset Hub marketplace lets photographers sell presets, AI looks and other assets they build, launching with more than 400 official assets, according to Evoto's press release. Evoto is backing the marketplace with a $500,000 Creator Reward Pool: creators who join between September 22 and December 31, 2026 get $50 once their first asset is approved, and the top 20 sellers by volume each get an added $100, according to The Dead Pixels Society. Creators keep 60% of net sales with no listing fee.

Evoto Desktop is available now as a free download for macOS and Windows, and the Evoto App is free on the Apple App Store and Google Play, the press release states. Pricing for Evoto Video's plugin tiers was not specified in the material reviewed for this story.

The release caps a year of rapid growth for the company: Evoto said more than 1.2 billion photos have now passed through its software, used by 1.2 million professional photographers and 60,000 studios in over 200 countries, up from 158 countries at its first launch event in September 2025. That earlier event, called Evoto One, introduced Evoto Video as the company's first entry into video retouching alongside Evoto Desktop 6.0 and a mobile app called Evoto Instant, according to PetaPixel's coverage at the time, which quoted Evoto spokesperson Jay Peterson saying the company's long-term goal is a full workflow that competes with Adobe Lightroom.

"Evoto is built to give photographers the most speed and the most value in the industry, without asking them to give up their judgment," Peterson, now Evoto's US Revenue and Marketing Director, said in the press release.

Evoto 8.0 is available now; Evoto Desktop and the Evoto App can be downloaded free, and Asset Hub applications are open through evoto.ai.