Ready for some of the easiest beauty editing on the market using AI? In this photography editing tutorial I show you how I use Evoto AI to edit my photos from a recent photoshoot.
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All right everybody, welcome back. Today we’re going to take a little detour. Instead of doing photoshoots, it’s time to edit some of those pictures that we’ve photographed. You all know the pain points. As my fellow photographers, we’ve got all these images and we have to sit down and start editing them, retouching them, and there’s always a reason why and we always move on to the next latest and greatest. So today we’re going to work through three images. We’ve got some really cool images here. Let me show you these. And so these are all from recent shoots that I’ve done. This one was from Nanlite. We had a workshop up in New York City and these came out great. And these are all straight out of camera. So these are kind of what you see is what you get.
The only thing in full transparency, I straightened this image, it was a little cockeyed, but these are straight out of camera, no retouching, no editing. So you can see the imperfections here, which is normal. You’re going to have that. Everybody’s got blemishes on their face, but we’ve got to clean them up. And I think that’s part of both the pain point of being a photographer and the realities of being a photographer is you cannot deliver typically straight out of camera to your clients. You’re not going to post that online, right? Today’s client are very used to filtering. Now how much you filter, how little do you filter? Well, we can have a very spirited debate on what’s too much and what’s not enough. And so always, I always say season to taste. So you do you, I’m going to show you how I’m going to edit these three, what I think are very beautiful images, even straight out of camera. But we want to clean up those blemishes and imperfections.
So for this tool, I’m using Evoto. We are using the most current version as of the recording, it’s 3.50 and they’ve added some new features, one of which is called Remove Armpit Fat. And I love it, because as much as it sounds politically incorrect, it is what it’s called, armpit fat. We’ll use that a little bit here today. So first image up, bright, tonal, everything. I went with this warm tone. There’s actually a video we filmed on creating this kind of warm light feel, but absolutely beautiful. Alana is stunning. She killed this photo shoot.
How do we perfect this here? So I love working with Evoto. It’s a very quick, easy tool. It’s AI of course. So everything you do when you’re using AI versus maybe hiring an editor to do something like this is global in nature. It’s going to tend to operate that way.
If you want it to be more laser precision, AI will get better and better. But that’s where you’re going to have to go into Photoshop and do things in a much more granular way. But for quick, easy editing, I don’t think there’s anything better than this. So first thing we want to do is I always crank up freckle acne to 100%. You can already see if we just do the freckle acne, I mean almost immediately the image is better. Now I will apply some skin softening, but almost every single image, I’m 100% on freckle acne. Perfect. We still have skin detail, skin pore, all that other good stuff. Now, something else we don’t have a whole lot of her body showing, but I think your body blemish, you should also, she had a little, just probably just a blemish on her shoulder. You want to get rid of that too. Everything should match, right? I think that just makes sense.
She doesn’t have a whole lot of face shine. So I just kind of go through this slowly but surely. Eye bags, no real change there because she doesn’t really have eye bags, right? Smile line, neck wrinkle. There is a little wrinkle right there. Let’s see how this does here. No double chin, no stomach stretch marks. Now, here’s where you can get a little bit cray-cray when you’re doing this, right? So we can go dodge and burn and that’s really good, cranked up. Now here’s where it’s seasoned to taste, and you can overdo it. If we zoom in, it is really given a very refined approach to retouching. So here’s what I like doing. I like going to about 50 on this. Also do 50 on the body skin smoothing. So if we have none, the problem is if you have none on the body and you have it on the face, they don’t match up. So you want to get that to at least be close.
Here’s where we can add some texture here. So now we can add some texture to the face, maybe a little bit of clarity, and that’s going to bring back some of that texture so that it doesn’t look plasticky, right? So we’re seeing here, we still see all that pore detail. To me, that’s good. Look at her forehead, plenty of pore detail. I like the way that’s looking.