Are there any Photoshop plugins that bring in metadata from iPhoto?

Question

I just got CS4, and know I can tell iPhoto to edit photos directly in Photoshop. However, the Photoshop Bridge may have features in organizing my photos that may allow me to enhance what I already have done to organize them in iPhoto. Are there plugins that basically allow one to manage an iPhoto library from within Photoshop CS4? I'm looking for Keyword, Library, Comments support within Photoshop Bridge.

Answer 1

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In a word, No.
If you have a Managed Library there is simply no way for Bridge to access the pics, nor will it make sense of the various versions inside the Library.
The iPhoto metadata - Keyword, Library, Comments - are not stored in the photos, but only in the iPhoto db file. Bridge has no ability to read this.
The only way to write to the photos themselves is to export from iPhoto.
If you're using a Referenced Library then the file management abilities of Bridge make it very, very easy to corrupt the iPhoto Library.
Simply, the best advice I can give is that you need to choose between iPhoto and Bridge. I don't think there's anything that Bridge does that iPhoto doesn't, and many that iPhoto does and Bridge doesn't.
Regards
TD