Ahoj, this is Zdenka.
I've been doing fashion, glamour, portrait
and a wedding photography since 2004.
And when I realize all these hours,
all these days, I've put into photo retouching
to get results like this, to get the quality out,
insane, long hours.
We simply did not have the tools that are available today.
And I know that there are many photographers out there
who do very similar things as me, so they know what I'm talking about.
It's 2024 and I'm actively
searching tools that can speed up my workflow.
In this video I will introduce you to Evoto photo
editor that is also a sponsor of today's video.
It is an excellent time saving tool for professionals.
I will show you some real time editing.
You will be amazed how fast we'll get things done.
There are many unique features, such as removing stray hair.
You don't have to do it manually anymore.
Okay.
Let me show you the magic.
Once you open up Evoto AI and import images,
you will be greeted by this layout.
Let me quickly explain the setup.
On the left you have presets.
Below are color masks and history.
If you need to go back to any previous step, this is where you would do it.
Home icon above takes you to all your imported files.
The plus icon is for importing images and folders.
Next is the hand icon, Liquify and Clone stamp tool.
On the right is the color Adjustment panel.
Portrait Retouching, Background Adjustment Panel,
Clothes and accessories touch up and crop tools.
Very simple setup.
Each panel has tons of tools
that let you control pretty much everything.
For those wondering, I have placed a link to this software
below the video in a video description.
There is also a special bonus there.
Let's work on the first image I have here.
You can start by selecting any recommended presets on the left.
Here is where you would also find your own presets,
which you save along the way.
Or you can start on the right by choosing one of the AI color looks.
What is the difference between AI color looks and presets?
AI color looks are more than just presets.
Let's say that I have a group of photos that need to have the same looks style.
When I apply one of these colored looks to both photos,
it will adjust both photos individually
preserving the originality of each photo,
so it has the same look.
It will make the color of the picture more natural.
It will adjust exposure and also white balance
to make the photo more realistic.
I am going to go with vivid light.
Below you have all typical controls where you can do further adjustments.
And I'm just going to do very minor adjustments, bringing the shadows down a bit
and also vibrance.
Let's check out the filters.
If any of these looks can be placed on the image
and blend it in a bit.
I like the PO4, it
gives a very nice, warm, golden look, which goes well with the gold and jewelry
she is very.
Let's go to the portrait retouching panel.
Now, here is where you will see how fast everything will happen.
The software already detected that there is a female in a shot.
If you have multiple people in a shot,
you can choose if you are working on a female or child.
I will show you that a little bit later.
Let's zoom in 100%
and move the image so we can see the skin better.
The first thing I'm going to do is remove freckles and acne.
Here is before and here is after.
As you can see, the skin is now much cleaner.
I'm going to move onto a body and also remove body blemish.
I'm going to tone down a bit
face shine.
I'm going to remove
eye wrinkle. Here is before
and after. I'm going to remove dark circle.
I will also take out smile line
and remove neck wrinkle.
Let's pull out skin
retouching controls to smoothen the skin even more.
As I prefer a more natural look, I am going to drag the slider
only a tiny bit.
The first tool is dodge and burn.
I will also bring up a bit face skin smoothing, again,
just a tiny bit. Not too much.
I will apply the same effects to the body with body smoothing tool.
Let's look at all the changes made so far.
So here is before and after.
I will also unify body complexion a little bit.
I still want to keep the highlights and shadows
there as I want the look to stay dramatic.
I would like to warm up the skin a bit more
by adding a rosy complexion effect.
Just subtle.
Eyes could use some work too,
so let's open up all eyes controls.
Zoom in the photo 100%
to see all details. Let's brighten the eyes
and remove red veins.
Here is before and after.
Hair needs a lot of work.
There are fly aways.
It just looks a bit messy.
Let's zoom in a bit to see how the Evoto AI can handle this task.
Let's just push remove
straight hair all the way to the right
and everything is nice and clean.
Looking at the face shape.
Let's go to face reshape and bring the chin
a tiny bit down.
Not too much.
Only a little bit.
We don't want to change
model's face completely.
Hairline could be a little bit lower, too, though.
Let's just bring it down a little bit
and also lower the face a bit.
Here is the original photo before and after.
Small changes that have a big impact on the image.
The lipstick color could be changed a bit as well.
I would like the color to kind of match the nail polish color.
Let's look at the lipsticks choices here.
Let's select perhaps this one.
I'm going to return to hair as I see lots of gaps around the head.
This could be fixed as well.
I still want to make sure it looks natural
so I am not going to apply full strength.
You just have to play with it and see what looks the best.
Here is before and after.
I'm still not happy about the hair shape.
So let's select Liquify Tool and reshape it a bit.
First of all, all this lower area needs to be tucked in a bit
more to make the look very clean.
Now, I will reshape the bun a bit more,
make it a bit bigger as well.
I'm almost done.
I just need to fix the background.
It looks kind of plain.
I'm not liking the color much.
I feel that one of these gray colors would work the best for the background.
I just like this combination.
This tone looks nice. It's still very warm.
So here is the final result.
This is before and after.
Let's zoom in 100%
to see how the edges look.
The software did a really good job.
Everything looks very smooth.
There is a lot of detail.
I like it.
And it took only a few minutes.
The best part is that you can save all the changes
as a preset and apply it to similar photos.
I'll show that later.
Now I'm just going to hit export.
Let me show you another photo.
This is a typical portrait shot mother with son.
Overcast day light is very dull.
No sky visible plain shot, doesn't look good.
Let's change it all around.
He's not smiling much.
Let's change that as well.
Let's start with the AI color adjustments and go with vivid light.
I am going to adjust
the temperature and tint, just minor changes.
Let's go to
portrait retouching panel and select female to work on the Mom first.
I am going to remove the freckles,
remove eye wrinkle
and dark circle, but not all the way.
Moms are always a bit tired with small children,
so let's be more realistic here.
I'm also going to smooth the skin in the face
a little bit and the body.
I'm also going to brighten the eyes
a bit as hers are quite dark because of the light.
And let's remove red veins.
I'm also going to add a little bit of a catch light in her eyes.
There are few choices here.
I am still going to tone it down a little.
I really don't like the gap between the hair at the top,
so I'm going to go to Healing Tool to simply patch it up.
There.
Now it looks way better.
Here is what we have so far.
Here is before and after. It's time to work on the boy.
There are a few things that could be changed as well.
I'm going to click on the child icon to pull out
all controls just for him.
I would like to fix his complexion a bit.
He has very dark neck, lighter skin on arms,
so I will play with the unified body complexion
just to make the neck area look a bit better.
He really is much lighter compared to mom,
so let's give him a little bit of a tan,
so they blend in together.
Now, he's very serious in this photo.
So let's give him a little bit of a gentle smile.
Just like that.
Not too much.
There is a great tool for that.
And I tried it with other photos.
It works great.
I am also going to brighten his eyes a little bit.
Let's change the troubled sky.
I really don't like the background.
Evoto has quite good selection
of different skies. For this photo
it would be the best to choose some light sky
looking a bit overcast with blue parts here and there.
It will match the lighting a little bit better.
The darker blue skies are okay, but
let's go with bright sky,
where is more white.
This one looks quite nice.
Let's make it blend
in together by adding sky blur
and also lets it bring down the sky opacity
a bit as the blue is still too bright for me.
I would like to tone it down.
Now I will just play a bit with brightness,
saturation and temperature.
So here is the raw photo.
And here it is with all the edits.
There is one more thing, though, we can fix.
Let's check out the boys t shirt
and let me show you this cool tool.
Let's go to clothes, accessories,
drag the de-wrinkle tool all the way up, and voila.
Here it is. Nice and tidy.
Here's the final image. Here's before.
And after.
Let's move on to one last example.
I promised you to show you how you can create your own presets,
which would then apply to multiple images.
Here I have these three fun photos I took many years ago.
These were taken for stock.
Let's edit the first photo.
I'm going to go with AI color looks
and this time I would like to go with some blue tones.
I think
that nice, cool blue tone would look really good with this photo.
I'm also going to add a filter.
Let's see if any of these work.
I think I will go with the last one and bring it down a bit.
Just a little bit of the filter will work.
I'm still going to tweak the blue color a bit,
so I will go to the color, calibrate section
where I can change the blue to where I want it to be.
Let's go to portrait retouching panel.
Let's zoom the photo 100%.
Now I see that the filter has also green, which I don't like.
So I'm going to go back to the color adjustment panel
and simply remove the green effect completely.
When it comes to face retouching,
there is really not that much needed here.
So I'm just going to remove the freckles
and remove the dark circles under the eyes.
Let's clean the background a bit.
I'm going to enable clean, solid background.
Well, now let's take a look at the final image
and see how you can apply the same edit to the other two photos I have here.
I'm going to pull out the panels back
and I'm going to hit the safe preset button.
You can select what filter you want to save
or you can save all changes,
which is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to name it. Boy 1. Whoops.
I don't have any group created yet, so I have to do that now.
Let's just call the group Blue
and hit save.
Now all I have to do is
go to presets on the left side.
Go to my presets.
Here is blue group and inside is the boy one preset.
Click on that and done,
photo has been edited.
I will do the same with the third image.
or what you can do is if you have few images here,
you can select all images, hit
sync all button on the right,
and the preset will be applied to all selected images at the same time.
Here's the first one.
Second and third.
And now I can go ahead and export all three photos at the same time.
You're most likely wondering about the pricing.
There's no subscription, which is great.
The software has free access to all features
which are being periodically updated,
so you can download it, you can play with it,
it can import photos, you can edit them,
you can see how it works if it works for you or not.
What they're offering is a credit system.
You only pay for exports.
One credit means one photo. Each credit costs
between $0.4 to $0.7, depending on the package selected.
So for example, if I deliver to my client
20 fully edited images, it will cost me a $1.40,
if I'm going to go with the lowest package.
If you want to test this software yourself,
the link is below in a video description.
There's also a special bonus there.
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