SolarSpark Productions has introduced Professional Camera 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Allowing “access to the low-level features of the iPhone/iPod camera hardware”, this app allows you to lock focus on one point within the frame with a single tap and set exposure for a different spot using a double tap. White balance adjustments, video resolution and quality settings are also possible and accessible using Professional Camera 1.0, which is available on iTunes for $1.99.

True NightVision 1.5 is an iPhone app that brings advanced real-time low light-video enhancement to the Apple iPhone 4 and 3GS. When it’s way too dark for the iPhone camera, True NightVision can enhance the image using advanced light amplification technology so you can see what is out there. It works best in low light, such as a night with a full moon, but it will not work in very dark conditions. TrueNightVision is available now priced at $0.99.

Photodex has released ProShow StylePack - Weddings, the latest addition to its StylePack line for ProShow. This StylePack features 25 elegant effect combinations for use in both ProShow Web and ProShow Producer. Each combination is designed around a specific look or style. ProShow StylePack - Weddings is available now for $19.95. Requires ProShow Producer 4.x or ProShow Web.

Boinx Software has announced You Gotta See This! 1.2, the company’s popular panography photo app for the iPhone. Designed originally for iPhone 4 technology, You Gotta See This! gives users the ability to choose between the two built-in cameras, hit record, point, and capture their surroundings in an arbitrary, 3D fashion for eye-catching results. Version 1.2 features increased speed and enhanced rendering capabilities. Rendering can now be cancelled mid-process and you can return to camera mode to capture a better shot. You Gotta See This! is available now at a promotional sale price of $0.99.

Leading UK awarding body, OCR, and Adobe has announced at BETT 2011 that the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) qualification in Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop is now available as part of OCR’s new ITQ qualification. This means students with skills in Adobe’s creative software can now achieve a second nationally-recognised IT qualification from OCR. John Deacon, OCR Business Manager, said: “This is an excellent development which enhances our vocational IT qualification range and our ITQ qualification in particular.

Laplink Software today released Laplink DiskImage, an advanced backup and recovery package that protects users from unforeseen data loss. “Using Laplink DiskImage doesn’t just secure data, but the entire PC, including the operating system,” the company says. The package also features PCmover Image Assistant. This allows users to restore the hard drive contents of an old PC to a new one without overwriting anything, even the new operating system. Laplink DiskImage is available now for £29.99 from Amazon UK and play.com.

Cypress Innovations has released piRAWnha 1.1, an iPad app that enables raw image file processing. piRAWnha features both raw developing and post?processing options, including exposure compensation, white balance correction, highlight recovery, denoise operations, gamma correction, saturation?hue?brightness adjustment, contrast adjustment and sharpening. The update brings about a host of new features, including the ability to import photos via iTunes, the ability to set and save presets for faster processing of raw images, support for JPEG/PNG/TIFF editing, the ability to create thumbnails when not automatically generated by the iPad, and more. piRAWnha is available in the App Store for $9.99.

Corel has released Paint it! Now, a free iPhone photo app that turns your photos into digital “paintings”. With five different painting effects, Corel Paint it! Now also allows you to share your work instantly on Facebook and Flickr. The company also announced a new version of Corel Paint it! Show, a photo painting slideshow app for the iPad. The new version, now available for free, also offers an easy paint-and-share option.

Aragon Systems has launched Helios, an image handling application for photographers. Helios offers a complete solution for photo processing workflow, from development of raw photos to printing, for Windows users. Apart from standard operations such as curves, colour adjustments, cropping and red eye removal, advanced tools such as distortion/perspective control, noise removal, adaptive contrast adjustment are included. All results are automatically saved and the user can start over at any point with an earlier version of the photo. A full licence is priced at €49, and both a time-limited trial version and a free “light” version are available too.

Hart Codeworks has announcedSmart Shooter v1.1, an update to the digital photography workflow application for tethered shooting, remote capture and advanced camera control. The update adds support for all recent Nikon DLSR cameras, making it possible to now control both Canon and Nikon DLSRs simultaneously from the same application. Smart Shooter is available for both Windows and Mac, and is priced at £32.

PercepTool 2 is a Photoshop add-on that performs High Dynamic Range (HDR), Tone Mapping and Perceptual Effect. The upgrade cost for original PercepTool owners is $75. The full version is $95.

FreeHDR is a free Photoshop add-on that performs High Dynamic Range (HDR) alignment and blending. FreeHDR finds an optimal alignment for images to be blended (with multiple quality settings) that does not suffer from the flaws in Photoshop’s alignment.

Version 1.10 of the nama5 RAW Processor adds Fill light control, zoomable curve control and performance improvements. The nama5 RAW Processor is dedicated to amateur and slightly advanced photographers who are just getting familiar with the digital RAW photography and would like to have some simple and valuable tool for processing and exporting RAW format to more common JPEG or TIFF formats. nama5 RAW Processor is available for 25 EUR.

flickery combines the flickr community with the ease-of-use and elegance of Mac OS X. Easily upload photos and videos to your Flickr photostream, organize items in photosets, galleries and groups, browse Favorites, and more. flickery 1.9.2 automatically converts RAW files and offers converting options for video files so they can be uploaded.

Camera Plus Pro 3.0 is now fully compatible with the retina display supported by the new iOS devices. Camera Plus Pro supports zoom for both photo capture and video recording. The recording of video can be paused and then resumed too. Camera Plus Pro 3.0 costs $1.99 USD.

3D Camera for iPhone and iPod Touch takes advantage of iOS 4 and the Retina display to create 3D photos. 3D Camera is an app that makes it easy to create 3D photos and share them with friends on Facebook and Twitter. 3D Camera 1.5 costs $1.99 USD.

Artensoft Photo Collage Maker 1.0 makes photo collages in the manner of a famous photomosaic of Steve Jobs. Similar to a human artist, the program examines a source image and then recreates it as a hand-made mosaic automatically. Artensoft Photo Collage Maker 1.0 is available immediately for $79.95.

Snappix 1.0 is a new photographic App for the iPhone. Snappix allows you to quickly take four shots from the camera in quick succession, put them in the same frame, and quickly send them via email to friends or to facebook directly without leaving the App. Snappix 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.

Panorama Free 1.0 allows users to take panoramic photos from their iPhone or iPod touch camera. The app allows to take a few photos in sequence and then the Panorama Free merges all of the photos into one, creating a panoramic photo. Panorama Free 1.0 is free of charge and available exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.

Photo Delight 1.1 is a color splash app for the iPad. Add colour to any part of the automatically converted black-and-white photograph with simple swipes of your finger and see the effect. Photo Delight 1.1 costs $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and is available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.