Evoto - Nice App - Whacked Pricing (In My Opinion) 

Evoto is another non-destructive photo editor on the market. In this video, I discuss and demo some of its features and then explain Evoto's pricing. Please subscribe to my newsletter! anthonymorganti.substack.com/subscribe Check out one of my newer websites - The Best in Photography: bestinphotography.com/ This is Evoto's website (I have no affiliation with Evoto): www.evoto.ai/ Please help support my RU-vid channel - consider purchasing my Lightroom Presets: www.anthonymorganti.com/ To get more info about Lightroom, go here: prf.hn/l/lGnjDBl Here is my list of recommended software: wp.me/P9QUvD-ozx Here is a list of my current cameras, lenses, etc.: wp.me/P9QUvD-ozG Help me help others learn photography. You can quickly offer your support here, where I receive 100% of your kind gift: ko-fi.com/anthonymorganti You can change the default amount to the amount you want to donate.

LOL..... I emailed you. I am not an employee. :) Thanks for taking a look. I agree ...the pricing is whack.

The pricing I'm seeing currently shows just under $0.07US per exported image as their most expensive option. At that price, if you edited and exported 700 images (say like, a big wedding package or similar and you could batch edit a lot of it) for $49, it doesn't sound terribly priced to me.

You should review it again. They keep adding features (including stray-hair removal, clothing de-wrinkler etc) and I think it's hands down the best portrait editing software around. Sure, the pricing model isn't my favorite but if you factor in time saved and overall results, I think it's so very worth it.

What an odd business model - they are incentivizing their users to use it less.

Thanks for very well done presentation. I downloaded Evoto, purchased 1200 credits and used the software on a headshot session I just did for a client but as much as this seems like a wonderful app, it also reduces the quality of my original photo/headshots. I'm very disappointed because the Evoto software doesn't appear to offer a high res professional look. For example I adjusted a person's skin, removed bags/wrinkles, freckles and stray hair but major parts of the photo, like the ears, person's clothes and my gray backdrop have become very grainy/fuzzy. If I could post a sample of my experience here, I would.

I downloaded Evoto about week or so ago and enjoyed the features enormously. A bit of Lightroom and parts of Photoshop rolled into one app. Then I saw their prices...... Nope. A wedding photographer would be bankrupt!

After watching this, I'm not even going to give it a try.

Another problem with the model is say I take a photo the person doesn’t like it they want me to re-edit it, so what I have to pay another credit to re-export it again

I can see your point and agree with you about the pricing as it relates to batch editing standard photos. You can do the same this does using Lightroom or Capture One. However, for me, this pricing is pretty good for my use case, which would be on portraits and people shots, where I want to do quick, broad strokes retouching. It's insanely powerful in that department. That alone justifies the price for me.

This app, made me remember of Luminar Ai kind of app! Thanks Anthony!

The retouching features look like they do a lot more than Luminar AI and Neo (I use and like them both) but I agree that the credit system is lame. What I really don't like is that since it's cloud-based, you have to give it permissions around any security software, malware and possibly your VPN could be an issue. Some features require you to allow for "content analysis" for product improvement. All the while, the program is constantly monitoring your computer's activity for the use of credits. No, thank you.

100% agreed on pricing. Just give me a standard subscription. I hate this credit style pricing on pretty much anything.

Oh, it works for me, I used to paid a retoucher to edit photos, $5 dollars per photo until I see this, I used to send my raw files to a retoucher and have them edit for me. Just for headshots though. Anything g more creative I would do myself, but it just took a lot of time. It’s saving me a ton of time and I’m able to offer more edits to clients without paying for a retoucher which is great!

You are right. Pricing is whacked. Cash grab subscription at its worst.

For a professional portrait artist, this is game changing. If I send off 20-30+ images to a retoucher, it will take anywhere from 24 hrs to 3-5 days to get them back and it will likely cost $3-10 each. Weddings could take up to a month and easily cost in excess of 10% of the revenue for the wedding. To be able to edit an entire session or even a wedding in that amount of time for no more than about $.07 per image is very reasonable and cost effective. I think this will be an amazing tool, and if a photographer is truly a professional and has a legit, sustainable business model, they can work this into their cost of doing business and raise pricing to cover it - using faster turnaround as a leg up on the competition. Just my 2 cents. :)

I definitely don't like a subscription model for pricing but in this case, I think your analysis is a little bit flawed. There's no question that if you're using this product on all your photos that the pricing just is totally out of whack. But I don't think most people would perform this level of retouching on all their say, vacation photos. Or, suppose you're a headshot photographer. It's very unlikely that you'd be shooting 100 portraits a month. I think this product is very much aimed at professionals like that which explains their pricing strategy. Frankly I liked all your photos in their original form and don't care for all the retouching this product is capable of automating. If all keep using these AI image processors all our photos will start looking the same. Who needs that?

That pricing is insane!

I tried it, doesn’t add much you don’t get in say Luminar Neo, but with less control. And less capability on other image types besides portraits. And the pricing is silly…

Why would we want to distort our images to such an extent that they no longer reflect the subject. There is a purity and authenticity about using our camera and composition skills to capture the image in camera. We know that Apps can allow us to to use Raw to correct exposure and other artefacts caused by the limitations of the camera/lens. I do not understand why we would want to pretend it was a cloudy day when it wasn’t or alter the shape of our model’s face to be something that it isn’t. I do not want my photography to become a digital manipulation of reality. As for the pricing, they clearly are not photographers or interested in photography.

Great review. But I won't even get their free trial version, the pricing plan a real turn off.

Thanks!

Impressive App. I think for now, I'll hold on to my money.

Interesting program, the sky replacement tool is very powerful as you pointed out considering it will put a reflection in the water. I know there are other ways to put the reflection in the water, this however seem so easy to use. I prefer to do most outdoor/landscape photography and this would be a worthwhile addition to my editing. I agree the pricing is strange, wonder what contitues exporting, my desk top, to a printer, mine or lab, for a photo book, etc? Wonder if it works with all file formats, raw, jpeg, tiff, etc?

I agree. Silly subscription. On a recent trip I shot over 4000 pics. They super crazy!

Pricing is a scam avoid these companies that don't let you just buy the software.

seems to be only for studio portraits really. and exporting only about 20 photos per session or something like that

Does this program/company take a copy of your content online while editing it?

I was thinking about getting it but now now! Greed is one of the seven deadly sins!

Great video. The app is just okay compared to others on the market. But yeah, the pricing is absolutely a deal-killer. The problem is companies who use a credit-subscription hybrid are just plain greedy, in my opinion. I pass on anything like this. And I spent enough quarters in my youth on arcade video games to be over it all :)

Seems strange that with all the features, they didn't include the ability to change eye color?

The last wedding I shot was 3,000 photos ... That is one wedding so the pricing for me is not good

I really like this photo editing app, and obviously, it's very powerful software! But the price of this software is not friendly.... Btw, I appreciate your voice more than this app.

I know imagine if every time you saved Adobe Photoshop charged you a nickel

Nice but that pricing is something!

Not for Im afraid. I can shoot 1200 images in a day and couldn't afford to export that many on these peoples pricing plan, but what happens to a photo if you do edits to it, but dont export it and move on to the next photo, what happenned to the first photo, does it just get lost in the ether??? I`ll just stick with the Adobe Photography plan thanks very much and when I get tired of paying Adobe I`ll just buy a copy of Affinity Photo for a one off price of £49. Thanks but not for me Mr Morganti.

Weard pricing, other than that It seems to have more features than Luminar Neo.

Background changer is really important to me, and theirs is ok, but not good enough for AI, and the cost is prohibitive. Way too much

No way I'd take that subscription "offer"

Yeah, the features are knife and looks like it could save some time but yeah the pricing model is completely whack and is 100% why I would never actually use this app I mean I shoot vans things like that all the time and those can range anywhere from 200 to thousands of delivered photos… so to use this app yeah would be bankruptiing. They just need to come out with her fixed price and then if you want to upgrade a year later or whatever pay an upgrade fee with unlimited exports.

I wrote them and told them their prices are trash

That was 117 per month ....

Looks like they want a quick return on their development. Makes you question motive. I would stick to Lightroom and Photoshop.

hi

I like it good edit with but the pricing do not make it worth it.

Wow this is crazy expensive. Not for me :-)

pricing is too much high

I don't care if this app kisses me and fixes me dinner; that is TOO DAMNED EXPENSIVE! ANY OF THIR OPTIONS! Espeically compared to Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.

Pricing put me off buying.,

Yes I like how it works, but the price is not right. I can use my money better!!

Pricing is prohibitive, particularly when I'm delivering large galleries to customers from which they make their final choices. What happens to unused credits at the end of the year? Are they lost? Surely, if you've purchased credits, they should not expire... They will have to restructure their pricing model to suit the activities of professionals better before I will entertain looking further into this software. It won't be long before a competitor launches similar software with a better pricing structure and then Evoto will pay a very high price for this approach.

Pricing is too high.

Evoto no longer has monthly plans. It's simply pay as you go by pre-paying for a select number of credits. A single credit is attached to an image once you export the image. You can then export that same image as many times as you like on that single credit. The highest price per credit is like .07 cents. This is way better than the monthly you show in the video for sure. They pivoted fast and I think I understand why - no one wants a monthly charge. The world of AI is pay as you go.

Very expensive 😭😭😭

I will never use this product with this pricing. Dead on arrival for me

Yea no! This is the subscription model at its worst. Nothing I can't get elsewhere.

Uh, I don't think so, Evoto. Try again.

The app does have some nice features, but that is the most ridiculous pricing scheme I have ever seen!

Pricing is ridiculous!

I wish you had mentioned the pricing first. It would have saved me from watching the rest of this video. 😂

If you don't buy this program, pricing should drop

"Whacked" is how mobsters say murdering someone. The street term for crazy is WACK. Not Whack. Not Whacked. Wack. Carry on.

Don’t know why you think .45 is a high price, think you could do what this app does. It’s great there is no dam subscription, so tired of that, here they let you have full use of the program and only charge such a low fee for their great program.

I think we're getting to the stage of software developers doing a cash grab because AI is going to make them obsolete. Soon you'll be able to say, "Make me a program like Lightroom". Bam, there's your program. Crazy how fast it's happening.

The most ridiculous pricing scheme I have ever seen . Not for me !

Uh, no. Not with this ridiculous pricing model.

Stick with Portrait Pro, Luminar and Photoshop.

That’s whack 😂!!

Great app, terrible pricing

To expensive for my wallet.

Horrible pricing!!

Your weird

Not just the pricing, looks to me like a BS app… please don’t bother doing anymore videos, this is not ready for prime time