Import BRIDGE collections + picture tags into Lightroom 3

Hi everybody
I am just evaluating LIGHTROOM 3.3 and I have CS4 Design Premium Package including BRIDGE CS4. NowI have a huge amount of picture and gave them a lot of picture tags like stars and colors etc and I have several COLLECTIONS under Bridge (NAME.filelist).
How do I get all the COLLECTIONS and picture TAGs of my BRIDGE environment into Lightroom?
Does anbody have an idea?
Thanks in advance and merry X-mas to all of you
Georg

Hi WW,
thx a lot for your help.
regarding collections I found the following article here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3196896#3196896
Your help regarding tags is surely helpful and solve the problem, but it is only a work-around.
For my understanding the three products out of one house (PhotoShop Elements Organizer, Bridge and Lightroom) doing about the same, should ...
work the same (same idea, same behaviour, organizing by path/subfolders instead of cataloges etc.)
maintain the same database and files (LR should recognize the collections from BR and Vice Versa, use the same cache files etc.) and should
be compatible to each other (e.g. Tags, Collections etc)
This is not pointing at you WW , I hope someone of the ADOBE Developer team is reading this!!
Actually I suggest ADOBE
to eliminate Organizer and integrate the good functions into BRIDGE.
give BRIDGE as the free of charge picture organizer to PS Elements and to PS CS
change LIGHTROOM into an payable upgrade of BRIDGE with enhanced functionality of the free of charge BRIDGE
better integration of PSE, PS CS and Lightroom
Beside that I suggest to get rid of the Catalog idea of Lightroom with it's import/export and synchronization needs and instead use or at least integrate the idea of BRIDGE to get pictures structured and organized by path and subfolders, as this is anyhow how the pictures are stored already for most of us. I doubt that anybody just throw all files into one big subdirectory and get the organized into cataloges. But please keep collections as they are helpful to quickly collect some pictures to commonly work on them. by drag & drop
Thanks
Merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year
Georg

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