TL;DR
What did The Photo Diaries with Grace Costa use Evoto for?
A photographer with over two decades in the job shares where AI earns its place: Lightroom's AI remove and masking tools, Evoto for glasses glare and backdrop wrinkles, and a chatbot only for proofreading drafts they write first. Evoto handled the glasses reflections that Lightroom didn't, and they call its AI editing a timesaver. They say Lightroom's color assist isn't saving time yet because they still check every image.
What they did
They use Lightroom's AI features daily: the remove tool, the newer masking and the AI color assist for event work. When they needed reflections removed from someone's glasses, Lightroom made almost no visible change, so they ran it through Evoto, which also cleans creased or wrinkled backdrops and evens skin tone with a slider. For writing, they draft social captions themselves, then paste them into ChatGPT or Claude and ask it to proofread, or proofread and improve.
How it went
Evoto handled the glasses reflections that Lightroom didn't, and they call its AI editing a timesaver. They say Lightroom's color assist isn't saving time yet because they still check every image.
Worth knowing
- Evoto and Photoshop's generative tools run on paid credits on top of a subscription. Chatbot writing went generic until they gave it lots of examples of their own brand voice, so they put their own ideas in first.
- Price check: Evoto: free plan; Credits from US$65 (checked Oct 26, 2026); Adobe Lightroom: free plan unclear; Lightroom (1TB): US$17.99/month, or US$11.99/month on a yearly plan (US$119.88/year) (checked Oct 26, 2026); ChatGPT: free plan; Go: US$8/month (checked Nov 1, 2026); Claude: free plan; Pro: US$20/month, or US$17/month on a yearly plan (US$200/year) (checked Nov 1, 2026).
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Try it yourself
Paste this into a chatbot, then add your own details underneath.
Proofread this caption I wrote. Fix spelling, grammar and punctuation only, and keep my words and tone. Then, separately, give me one slightly more compelling version that still sounds like me and keeps the same call to action. Caption: [paste caption]
Original post
See The Photo Diaries with Grace Costa's original post on YouTube → (Aug 31, 2026)
Sources
- The Photo Diaries with Grace Costa on YouTube, Aug 31, 2026 — the original post
- Evoto pricing — checked Oct 26, 2026
- Adobe Lightroom pricing — checked Oct 26, 2026
- ChatGPT pricing — checked Nov 1, 2026
- Claude pricing — checked Nov 1, 2026