
I am not sure where the seaweed shopping cart comes in, but I liked it.
For the first time I seriously tried using out the Adobe Camera Raw importer that comes with photoshop. I really liked it. I like the controls and all the stuff available for editing.
I only wish there was a way to use that same interface when adjusting other photos, large panoramas generated from RAWs through the Photostitch tool. Not that I looked for any such functionality.
In the end I edited the above photo using both Photoshop CS4 and iPhoto ’08. It was probably just the settings I used but the iPhoto editing came out looking a lot more natural. The photoshopped version looked very bright and clean, too much so. In this instance it was definitely a result of the settings I chose and I could do a better job. Just for this photo iPhoto was a lot faster to use.
For the panoramas and other photos from this particular album (I really need Flickr Pro or an equivalent) I use photoshop for the editing and photo adjustment (just colors and curves).
I am slowly becoming used to using photoshop for my photos. I feel that it is important to learn as a step to enhance my whole photography workflow.