The big surprise following Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 21 announcement was that the free-to-use video editor now supports photo editing. That’s right, stills photographers can access the coveted software’s color grading tools, favored by Hollywood productions. But of course, that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, with a whole roster of video-centric upgrades to boot.
Unsurprisingly, AI-powered tools feature heavily in this year’s update, with none perhaps as bold as AI Face Age Transformer and AI Face Reshaper. The former allows you to “de-age” faces, while the latter allows you to reshape them. It wasn’t all that long ago (circa 2016) that Robert Downey Jr and Johnny Depp were de-aged in Captain America: Civil War and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, respectively, which certainly puts this tech into perspective.
