Droplets vs Export as Original?

hey friends.
I'm fairly new to lightroom but have been using photoshop for a while now...
this is my question:
i want to use photoshop actions on my lightroom edited photos.
i have read about, and used to some extent droplets...writing action sets in photoshop and then creating a droplet and running that through the LR export dialog...however, i just can't seem to get it to work flawlessly.
i guess my question is...as i understand it, the export dialog creates a jpg and then opens this jpg in photoshop and runs the action. then resaves it as a jpg. if i understand this process, wouldn't that degrade the overall quality of the end result jpg?
would a better option, to maintain the highest quality, be to export as original from LR and then run the image processor with my actions from bridge/PS?

hey jim
i totally get what you're saying...i guess i didn't think about it that way...
i was exporting a jpeg from lightroom first...i'm so used to the way the image processor works in PS.
if i was to export as a tiff and then run the droplet, it would save the tiff (straight from LR) and then as a jpg (from photoshop using my action set)...correct?
so, essentially, it would give me a similar result as if i exported originals from LR and then used the image processor in PS to create jpgs?

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