Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 21

Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 21

Brie Clayton April 14, 2026

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Major update adds new Photo page bringing Hollywood's most advanced color tools to still photos, plus hundreds of new features including even more AI tools, new motion graphic effects, Fairlight folder tracks and more!

Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 21, a significant update introducing the new Photo page, which enables colorists and photographers to use Hollywood's most advanced color tools for still photos.

Other updates include new AI tools such as IntelliSearch for fast content searching, CineFocus for focal point adjustment, tools for facial refinement, and more. The Krokodove toolset adds over 70 new graphics to Fusion, Fairlight folders simplify audio track management, plus there are improvements to keyframing, MultiMaster trim passes, layer list node graphs and more. DaVinci Resolve 21 public beta is available for download now from the Blackmagic Design web site.

DaVinci Resolve 21 will be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design NAB 2026 booth #N2502.

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DaVinci Resolve's powerful post-production workflow now fully integrates photo image editing. The new Photo page lets customers import and manage photographs, integrating with the color page for node based grading. Now colorists and photographers can use Hollywood color grading tools on still images.

Use primary color correction, curves, qualifiers, power windows and node editor to adjust color in artistic ways across an entire project. Plus, customers can use a DaVinci color panel to adjust multiple parameters at once.

DaVinci Resolve's powerful node based workflow can now be used on still images. It's possible to add nodes in series or parallel to build complex grades, apply different corrections to different parts of an image simultaneously and use shared nodes to apply the same look across an entire album of photos at once.

The Photo page lets customers reframe and crop images at their original source resolution and aspect ratio. Every adjustment preserves the full quality of their original file, so customers can refine their composition at any time without ever affecting image quality.

LightBox view on the Photo page gives customers an overview of their entire album with grades applied. Select any image and grade it live while seeing the results update across the whole collection in real time. Filter by graded, ungraded, star rating, flag and clip color for fast library management.

Albums let customers build and manage collections directly in DaVinci. Create albums based on shoot days, camera models, or any desired criteria, and save countless hours by tagging and making raw setting adjustments in batches. Albums appear as timelines on the Color, Cut and Edit pages for easy access.

Camera Controls let customers tether a Sony or Canon camera directly to DaVinci Resolve for live image capture. Adjust camera settings such as ISO, exposure, white balance, monitor with live view and save capture presets to lock in a consistent look before customers shoot. Images save directly into an album.

Resolve FX and Open FX plug-in support is available for still images on the Photo page, allowing customers to apply effects, graphics, transforms and DCTLs. Customers can apply looks directly in the Photo page with the help of LUTs or generate LUTs to later apply looks in-camera or while monitoring.

Customers can access DaVinci Resolve's powerful native AI tools within the Photo page. Tools like the AI Magic Mask let customers make one click selections of an object or person, and separately color grade different elements on an image. Or use the new AI UltraSharpen to upscale low resolution images.

The Photo page is integrated into DaVinci Resolve's multiuser collaboration workflow using Blackmagic Cloud. Customers can share the contents of albums, all associated metadata and tags, and all grades and effects with colorists, visual effects artists and editors, simultaneously anywhere in the world.

Instantly search for people and content with AI IntelliSearch. Analyze media and use the IntelliSearch tool to find specific objects or key words in dialog. Customers can even search for individual faces. Results appear as whole clips in the Media Pool for faster clip organization and editing.

Customers can generate speech from written text using one of Blackmagic's voice models or a sample of their own using AI Speech Generator. The DaVinci AI Neural Engine can create a unique voice from as little as a 10 second clip. Adjust speed, pitch and even inflection, to create multiple performances for voiceovers, narration and more.

Define the focal point of a shot with AI CineFocus. Click to focus on a particular area of a scene and adjust aperture and focal range to change the depth of field. Advanced controls let customers select the aperture shape and add optical effects like bokeh. Customers can even keyframe parameters to rack focus.

Change an actor's age with the AI Face Age Transformer tool. Analyze a face, enter the subject's age and adjust the age offset slider to add or remove age-related features, such as wrinkles and facial fullness. Perfect for maintaining continuity in flashbacks and flash-forward scenes.

The AI Face Reshaper lets customers change facial features' shape and position on a moving subject. After detecting and tracking a face in a clip, use the AI Face Reshaper parameters to adjust the eyes, nose,

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