New to MacBooks - which spec do I need?

Hi all
Many thanks in advance for any help.
My current Asus laptop has died on me after 2 years (typically all my laptops last me 2 years). I have always had Windows laptops in the past.
I have an iphone and an ipad which is why I'm now looking to Apple for my next laptop. However, I'm finding trying to decide which spec I need a nightmare.
I'm looking at the new MacBook Pro retina model which has just come out.
Requirements as follows:
- On the whole, I have my laptop on all evening every evening and all day weekends.
- I usually have at least 4-5 browser tabs open at a time (eg always have facebook and twitter open in the background, then may be actively looking at at least another 2 pages at once). I also usually keep my mailbox open.
- I take a lot of large photos (18 megapixels a time) and use photo-editing software photoshop and lightroom (open the same time as all my browser windows)
- I don’t do any video editing or serious gaming. I don’t do any programming or web development or anything. My main usage is internet browsing and photography.
- I have a lot of music but currently signed up to itunes match which keeps it in the cloud.
- My current laptop screen is 15 inches. I have an ipad for on-the-move, I don’t really take my laptop out and about (possibly just because it’s too bulky). I feel like it could be a bit of a shock going down to 13 inches and possibly not the best for the photography. However the 15 inch models are ridiculously expensive.
It’s my understanding the newest OS will require quite a lot of memory.
Any help gratefully received. I’d be looking at the new mackbook pro retina models which came out last week. Customising them is possible, but I’m leaning towards buying from John Lewis and getting 5 year warranty which would mean I’d have to stick to the pre-configured models.

Having done photo editing with Photoshop on both the 13" and 15" I prefer the 15" for working but the 13" for traveling. Since I use an external display at work and at my home office the 13" works out fine. But if I had to use the 13" for all my photo editing I'd quickly sell it! The extra screen real estate is that important. I've seen nothing that suggests 10.10 will require lots more memory and the fact that the computer has an SSD mitigates against the need for lots of extra RAM. I do know that 10.9 isn't very happy with just 4GB and very unhappy with 2GB - when running on a computer with a mechanical drive but with an SSD 4GB is more than enough and 2GB is not bad. Given the extra oomph of an SSD, there's no reason to think that 8GB won't be enough for the next 4-5 years. Oglethorpe is also correct that you'll want to choose the largest drive you can afford.

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