External Editing in JPEG

I really want to edit my photos with LR adjustments in CS3 in JPEG format, but the only options I am allowed seem to be TIFF and PNG. After reading Kelby's book, I was under the impression that JPEG is an option. I normally wouldn't care, but PS doesn't let me save them as a JPEG after I make my PS changes. Any advice? I really don't want to work with TIFF.

Personally, I wouldn't want to edit the JPEG images that Lightroom created. Every time a JPEG image is saved there is a slight deterioration in the quality of the image. Admittedly, that deterioration is very slight, and it would probably take a number of saves before the deterioration is visible. But it does happen. The advantage of saving as a PSD or TIF is that these formats preserve the image quality. If you let Lightroom create the JPEG using the export function then the JPEG has already been saved once before you even start to do any editing on it. Therefore, theoretically, the damage to the image has already begun before you even start to work on it in Photoshop. Personally, I prefer saving TIF images and using those as my "working" files. Then I create JPEG images from those when it becomes necessary.

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