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Evoto 8.0 Updates Span Every Product and Opens a Creator Marketplace Backed by $500,000Evoto 8.0 also brings portrait retouching inside DaVinci Resolve, story-based culling, reusable workflows and an SDK NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Evoto announced Evoto 8.0 at its annual launch event, opening a marketplace where photographers can publish and sell presets and creative assets they build — backed by a $500,000 reward pool. The release spans their product family—Evoto Desktop, the Evoto App, and Evoto Video—and introduces a new Asset Hub, portrait retouching directly inside DaVinci Resolve, story-based culling for high-volume shoots, reusable workflow templates, and an SDK for production teams. "Evoto is built to give photographers the most speed and the most value in the industry, without asking them to give up their judgment. That creative call on every image is what a photographer brings to the work, and this release is built to protect it," said Jay Peterson, US Revenue and Marketing Director, Evoto AI. More than 1.2 billion photographs have now been processed through Evoto. The company supports 1.2 million professional photographers and 60,000 studios1, and has expanded from 158 countries at its 2025 launch to more than 200 countries and regions in twelve months2. Evoto Video: portrait retouching that stays inside the edit In-Workflow Retouching Plugin. Evoto's core portrait retouching now runs directly inside DaVinci Resolve3, allowing editors to refine faces and skin on a clip without leaving the timeline or exporting to another application. Evoto Video also adds Hair Shine, which tracks along the strands as the head moves; conservative teeth whitening that reduces yellow without removing ivory; and Facial Fullness, which restores volume flattened by lens or lighting and follows the face as it turns. Color Match works across clips too: set a still image as the reference, match one clip, then apply that direction to the rest in a single click — bringing footage shot on different cameras, locations and times to a consistent look. Story-Based Culling: organizing a shoot before editing it Storyline Mode organizes a set into the chapters a photographer chooses; frames that don't clearly belong are left unassigned rather than forced into the wrong place. General Mode groups visually similar images by subject, setup or scene — even when captured hours apart — for list-based work such as school photography, product shoots, real estate and events. Evoto surfaces the strongest frames within each chapter; the photographer makes the final picks. Segment structure carries through to delivery, so clients receive a gallery that follows the narrative of the day rather than an unsorted folder. Workflow, SDK integration, and production at scale SDK. For larger production teams, Evoto's SDK connects directly to the Evoto desktop app4, allowing teams to script recurring steps such as importing, applying presets and exporting. Precision refinement on desktop
The release also improves Background Extractin and adds orientation-aware AI Crop. Across these tools, Evoto reads the image in context — subject, light, color and environment — before adjusting, so every correction stays true to the original photograph. A redesigned Home screen brings Create Project, Tethered Shooting, Workflow and Asset Hub into one launch surface, and Evobot, Evoto's in-app assistant, answers questions in natural language and links to the relevant control. Evoto App: from tethered capture to delivery Asset Hub: a marketplace built into the editor Masters' Signature Presets bring collections built by working photographers out of delivered client work. A look that performs on a single frame is straightforward; one that holds across a full gallery, through changing light and locations, is a different matter. Membership campaign. From September 22 through December 31, customers purchasing an eligible Evoto Desktop plan or Cloud Storage package receive three months of complimentary access to Evoto Official Assets8. Full eligibility and campaign terms are published at evoto.ai. The Creator Program: $500,000 into the community "A photographer's style might be the reason clients book them," Peterson said, "this gives that same style a second way to generate income." Creators keep 60% of net sales, with no listing fee9. They retain ownership of their assets and may sell the same work non-exclusively on other platforms. How it works. Photographers apply through Become a Creator on the Asset Hub home page, submitting a portfolio and creative background; review is typically completed within seven business days. Approved creators upload assets through Creator Dashboard, add effect examples, set a price and submit for platform review. Earnings enter a monthly payout process, with the first payouts beginning in October10. Pricing and scope. Creators set their own prices within published bands: $8 to $30 for presets, $49 to $199 for AI Looks, and $2 to $8 for backdrops and skies. Presets, AI Looks, backdrops and skies are open to creator submission at launch; AI Background Fusion is not yet supported. Creators may submit only original work they legally own11. Evoto is backing the program with a $500,000 Creator Reward Pool. Photographers who join between September 22 and December 31, 2026 receive $50 once their first asset gets approved and goes live, and the top 20 creators by total sales during the campaign each receive an additional $100. Applications open September 22 at https://assethub.evoto.ai/ ; creator submissions, asset review and earnings details open September 29. Availability and pricing About Evoto AI 1Figures as presented at the Evoto Launch Event, September 22, 2026.
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