File management between LR and PSE 5

I currently use photo shop elements 5.0 and testing the LR demo. Im looking for suggestions for managing photos. I have 10,000+ photos in PSE. When I shoot raw they go into LR but I still shoot some in jpeg and they go to PSE. Whats the best way to keep everything organized?

Did you try importing your Elements catalog into Lightroom, and just using Lightroom? If you want to experiment to see how well it works, you can create a new blank LR catalog and use that.
LR's tools work well on . jpegs too, I don't want to lose that, so I don't even use Elements organizer function any more. I prefer the intuitiveness of the tagging & doing AND searches in Elements... LR's not quite up to snuff with Elements in that regard, IMO. More powerful, but seriously lacking some simple useability improvements.
Even so, I basicly sucked it up and went all LR even though those tagging problems ARE a major concern. I don't want to lock myself out of those editing tools in LR. And I prefer one catalog with ALL my images over trying to remember which were .jpg or RAW. But I'll keep complaining about pointing these usability issues with LR and urging development in these matters until maybe someone on the LR team actually hears me.

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Is anyone sharing keywords between LR and PSE's Organiser?

Thanks, I can see how that can work and the problems. It looks like the keywords themselves cannot be easily shared and I agree that having two organising programs is problematic but I wanted to 'export' the keywords I have created including their structure from Lightroom and import them into PSE organiser. You'd think you could do this with two similar products from the same company. The organisers in question are used for two purposes and the photos in each are different - i.e. I use lightroom for my pro stuff and PSE for family/casual stuff and no photo would be present in both. It looks like PSE really isn't designed to import keywords. I have Python code to create a PSE keyword file from a lightroom file so that will have to do as it's clear there's no interoperability.
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I edited a .nef file in Camera Raw and PSE 11 saved it as a .xmp file. I cannot open it now.
I am not sure if this is an issue but Windows does not recognize the .xmp file and give it an icon with the photo's picture. On a related note, when I edited some .nef files and Windows saved it as .dng file, it too, like the .xmp file, Windows does not recognize the .dng file and give it an icon with the photo's picture.
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Any issues with file sharing between Windows and latest Mac client?

We're running Lync 2013. My Windows client is 15.0.4551.1005. Mac client is version 14.0.8.
I open a conversation with a coworker on his Mac. I then try to share a png file. He clicks accept but then my client says the attempt timed out, and his client says that I canceled the file transfer. The coworker then boots the Mac into Windows and we try
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No, There isn't a bug with file sharing between Mac and Pc client.
2941640 Desktop sharing session stops in Lync 2013 when all screen data is updated
Also you can check below links
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2952672/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880474/en-gb
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I am getting used to using LR in my workflow and find it great for a simple shoot where I sort/cull, process and export. However I am getting into a bit of a muddle on the file management side
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I often create complex manipulated images - here I edit in photoshop and tend to create many versions. I save a version whenever I feel I have got somewhere with the file. However if I use 'save as' the file doesn't appear in Lightroom - I would have to go and re-import them. I've noticed that lightroom does create a new edit each time I close and reopen the edit, but this is time consuming and I don't want to do this.
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> ) Creating a final portfolio
 I tend to export any final images as Tiffs in to a Final subfolder, as I am slightly wary of leaving them as Raw with an attached xmp in case things get messed around when I archive them to a separate HD.
 
 One way around the latter is to convert to DNG as a final step. When i do this, I know the file is pretty complete. By using "Edit in PS" my work gets linked with the original RAW or DNG file, has ratings, key words, etc. But I've not done a lot in that area, and not sure how I'd handle multiple versions of photoshopped images from one RAW file. I might be inclined to save snapshots within PS or layer comps.
 
 

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Hello
I have transferred several photos via "edit in external editor" from aperture to photoshop.
In photoshop I made different operations:
a) just looking (no special manipulations) -> no saving
b) manipulations on a particular photo -> saving via "save" in PS
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IMO today you are very likely to be best served by the inexpensive Photoshop Elements. However, Adobe's world is changing at the end of this month (March 27) with official announcement of MacIntel versions. You may want to re-ask this question then, being careful of April Fool's Day wags.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=17399
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-Allen Wicks

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