Exporting images to Iphoto libraries

I am new to Apple and am probably trying to run before I can walk so apologies in advance if this is a "dumb blonde" question. I have happily been using Iphoto to store/manage and edit my images. I have recently started to shoot in RAW format, and have installed the trial version of Aperture 3 so enable me to work with these images more constructively. When I have enhanced an image and want to "keep" it I was thinking I could put it into Iphoto - for some reason I cannot find a way of doing this or if this is just using up space, how/where is the finished image, as opposed to the master held in Aperture. I don't want to duplicate files just looking for a simple manner to storing my "best" images.

Warienosmum,
iPhoto is in charge of its library, no one else, so there's no such thing as "exporting to iPhoto." Rather you have to use iPhoto to import into iPhoto.
To answer your other question, your versions are stored nowhere as full JPG's or anything like that. Don't go looking for them because they're not there. You can see them rendered for you in Aperture, but if you need them outside Aperture, you must export.
nathan

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