Editing in Lightroom 3

Hi
I want to (and have set up) to use Lightroom 3 as my photo editor from iphoto. I was just wondering if there was a way that I could export multiple photos to Lightroom at once. At the moment if I select to 'edit' a group of photos it only sends the first one. I am still getting used to iphoto as my 'organiser' of photos but am finding it frustrating and limiting, if i store the photos solely in iphoto I am unable to 'find' the photos folder to import to lightroom when i open it independently..and even setting up Lightroom as my 'editor' I can only send one photo at a time for editing...
can anyone help me with my workflow or make it easier..am I missing something?
Cheers
Ryboy30

What you're missing is that Lightroom isn't an editor like Photoshop. In fact, it's much more like iPhoto, and frankly, using the two of them makes little sense.
Both are database applications.
When you edit a photo in Lightroom there is no way for any other app to share this photo unless you export from it.
So, if you send a shot from iPhoto to LR, edit, what happens? You now have the original shot in iPhoto. You also have the original shot in LR. And you have the edits recorded in the LR database. The only possible way to get these back to iPhoto is to export from LR and then import to iPhoto.
So, now you have the original in iPhoto, the edited version in iPhoto - but they don't know about each other. You can't, for instance, revert to the original file from the edited version. As far as iPhoto is concerned, they are two totally separate files.
And, of course, you also have both versions in LR as well.
With a photo editor like Photoshop or Elements, you send a copy of the original to the editor. It edits the copy and the copy is saved back to iPhoto. This is possible because these apps are editors, not database apps.
Frankly, as LR is a pro level app, and does much of the work of iPhoto - and then some - I don't see why you're involving iPhoto in the process at all.
For the record: iPhoto will only send four photos to an editor at one time. A protection against folks inadvertently sending entire Events over.
But even the four won't work with LR because it's not opening the file... It's importing it.
So, to make your workflow easier... pick one of these apps and forget about the other one.
Regards
TD

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