Evoto 8.0 Brings Portrait Retouching Into DaVinci Resolve and Launches a $500K Creator Marketplace

Evoto’s 8.0 release lands across every product in the lineup at once — desktop editing, mobile app, video, and a new creator marketplace — which makes it harder to evaluate than a single-feature update but more significant as a signal of where the platform is heading.

The DaVinci Resolve integration and the Asset Hub are the two changes that warrant the most attention.

The News

Evoto 8.0 ships four major capability areas:

Video portrait retouching in DaVinci Resolve. Evoto’s retouching engine now runs directly inside Resolve as a plugin — skin, acne, clothing moiré, sweat stains, liquify background repair — applied to video footage without a round-trip export. For portrait and event videographers who already live in Resolve, this removes the step of treating video retouching as a separate workflow from color grading.

New retouching tools. The 8.0 desktop update adds Precision Freckles and Acne Retouching, Face Shadow Removal, Clothing Moiré Removal, Liquify Background Repair, Sweat Stain Removal, and Generative Expand. The last one is the most interesting technically — it extends a frame beyond its original boundaries without inventing new subject matter, filling based on scene context.

Story-based culling. Storyline Mode sorts high-volume shoot images into narrative chapters; General Mode groups visually similar frames across events, product shoots, or school photography sessions. Both are designed for the professional photographer culling thousands of images from a single assignment rather than the casual shooter.

Asset Hub marketplace. Photographers can sell or purchase presets, AI Looks, backdrops, and sky replacements through Asset Hub. It launched with 400+ curated assets on September 22. Approved creators keep 60% of net sales with no listing fees and no exclusivity obligations. Evoto is seeding the creator program with a $500,000 reward pool — including $50 for each photographer who joins before December 31 and gets their first asset approved and live, plus $100 for each of the top 20 creators by total sales during the campaign.

The Detail

The Resolve plugin matters most for the segment of the market that already does color grading and video editing in Resolve. Adding retouching there — rather than exporting footage to Evoto separately — keeps the editorial workflow in a single application.

The Asset Hub revenue model (60% creator, no exclusivity) is more creator-favorable than most marketplace models, which typically sit at 50% or require exclusivity to reach higher tiers. The $500K creator pool functions as a launch incentive to seed the marketplace with quality content before organic discovery is viable.

Generative Expand is worth testing before relying on for client work. AI-based frame extension has improved significantly across editing tools, but edge cases (complex backgrounds, strong perspective lines, distinctive textures) still produce artifacts. The underlying technology is sound; the question is workflow integration and edge case handling.

Source: The Phoblographer

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