Eightstop vs TetherCam

Develop RAW photos, blur backgrounds, remove unwanted objects, and shape light after the shot. Eightstop combines precise photo editing controls with 13 AI tools for portraits, landscapes, and everyday photographs. RAW DEVELOPMENT AND PRECISE COLOR Import camera RAW files, including ProRAW, DNG, NEF, CR3, and ARW. Work from the scene-linear RAW image, adjust exposure and white balance, and refine highlights, shadows, curves, and HSL color. Finish with clarity, dehaze, texture, grain, vignette, filters, and presets. 13 AI TOOLS, WITH CONTROL OVER THE RESULT • AI HDR: reconstruct detail in blown highlights and deep shadows from one photo. Reconstructed detail is AI-generated. Review an editable 32-bit HDR result and keep adjusting exposure after accepting it. • AI Focus: blur the background or foreground using scene depth. Tap to set the focus plane and adjust aperture, focal length, bokeh, and focus falloff. Refocus the depth effect as you edit. • AI Studio: place up to three virtual lights on your photograph. Choose from nine fixture types and adjust intensity, temperature, size, softness, and direction for editable portrait, product, or landscape lighting. • Light Depth: adjust near and distant parts of the scene separately using depth. • Enhance: improve light, color, and detail with adaptive corrections you can adjust individually. • Relight: change the direction and character of light with a cloud-generated edit. • Sky: replace the sky with a library image or your own, then refine the mask and placement. • Skin Enhance: smooth skin and adjust tone, shine, and texture with on-device face analysis. • Body Transform: use on-device person analysis and adjustable body-shaping controls for portrait edits. • Erase: use the object remover to remove people, unwanted objects, and distractions. • Expand: extend the photo beyond its original frame, with optional guidance for the generated area. • Upscale: use the image upscaler to double each edge while retaining the framing and proportions. • Denoise: reduce image noise while preserving the photograph's original dimensions. SMART MASKS AND LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS Detect subjects, backgrounds, people, and skies to make selective edits. Brighten a backlit subject, adjust the background, or refine a sky without tracing every outline by hand. EDIT ON YOUR DEVICE, USE CLOUD TOOLS WHEN NEEDED RAW development, manual adjustments, masks, Enhance, AI Focus, AI Studio, Light Depth, Sky, and portrait analysis run on your device. Cloud tools send a processed image with its metadata removed, rather than your original RAW file. Compare edits before keeping them and keep refining the photograph with manual controls. AI-generated detail may differ from the original scene. AI tools require sign-in and Eightstop Pro. Cloud AI tools also require an internet connection and credits. Eightstop Pro unlocks unlimited full-resolution exports. Sample photography courtesy of Signature Edits community contributors. All images were edited in Eightstop. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Your iPhone, instead of a webcam. TWO APPS, ONE CABLE TetherCam is two free apps. TetherCam for Mac is downloaded from tethercam.app; TetherCam for iPhone is this one. Install both, connect the phone to the Mac with the USB cable you already own, and the iPhone shows up as the camera "TetherCam" on the Mac, in the same camera picker as the built-in one. It works in every Mac app that lists system cameras: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, QuickTime Player, Safari, Chrome and the rest. Zoom and Microsoft Teams were verified on 10 September 2026. Nothing travels over Wi-Fi, nothing passes through a server, nothing is uploaded anywhere. There is no account, no pairing code and no discovery step. The cable is the whole path, which is why the picture stays stable in a crowded room where wireless cameras start to stutter. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone with iOS 17 or newer, a Mac with macOS 14 or newer, and the USB cable that came with the phone. The free TetherCam Mac app asks once for approval of its camera extension in System Settings; after that the camera is simply there. THE HONEST LIMITS The Mac app carries the picture only. A Mac camera extension has no audio stream, so the sound stays with the Mac's own microphone. Audio over the cable exists, but only on the OBS path below. This iPhone app stays open in the foreground while it sends. The phone serves one receiver at a time. The Mac app and the OBS plugin are not used together; whichever connects second is told that the line is busy. ON THE PHONE Live preview from the moment you open the app, before anything is connected. A camera and lens picker for the wide, ultra wide and telephoto lenses or the front camera, switching the stream immediately. Automatic rotation that follows the horizon rather than the interface. Turn the phone and the picture stays level, because the orientation is resolved on the capture side. There is a manual angle override when you want to decide yourself. Hardware HEVC encoding, which keeps the phone cool and the latency low. A diagnostics panel that shows what is actually happening: listener state, connection, frames per second, bitrate and the measured levelling residual. FOR STREAMING AND RECORDING: OBS STUDIO The TetherCam plugin for OBS Studio is the pro path, also free and also at tethercam.app. It adds a source called TetherCam directly in OBS, finds the phone through the same cable, and it is the only path that brings the microphone of the phone across as well. PRIVACY No account, no analytics, no advertising, no purchases. The camera picture goes to your own Mac and nowhere else. Nothing is collected. TetherCam for iPhone is free and open source under the MIT licence at github.com/Kanevry/tethercam.