After all these months of playing with my T4i, I finally decided to make an attempt as using photoshop. I've tried it in the past, but this time around I decided to get serious with it. I must say that once you actually sit down and pay attention to what you're doing (and watch a few tutorials on YouTube) it wasn't so bad.
Seeing as how I've taken 1,000+ pictures since February it was really hard to decided which photos to experiment on, but for the ones I chose (some of which will be uploaded later) I'm extremely proud of the result.