IPhoto, RAW and Photoshop

Dragging a photo to Photoshop (CS 3) opens a JPG not RAW. It only works if you choose to "edit in external editor". "Use RAW when using external editor" is checked in preferences. This worked fine in the previous version of iPhoto.
I would also like know if there is any way to use the RAW adjustments I make in Photoshop in iPhoto - without saving a copy in some other format.
Any suggestions?

I think when you drag a picture it assumes you're trying to use it for something, like an export, so it gives you the JPEG. It's a whole lot easier to click "edit" than to drag it to Photoshop anyway.
iPhoto won't be able to see Photoshop's raw edit settings, because they are different raw conversion engines. There's no way around that, except for iPhoto to use a rendered JPEG for viewing. Which is exactly what it should do, but unfortunately, they came so close but still haven't provided proper support for external raw editing.
iPhoto actually does use its own JPEGs for viewing imported raw images -- it stores a full-sized JPEG and a thumbnail JPEG in its library. Unfortunately it uses its own raw conversion to get these JPEGs, even if the raw file is a DNG with perfectly good embedded JPEG preview images. It should, at the very least, extract the preview images from the DNG instead of making its own.
However, if you go in and replace iPhoto's preview JPEGs it will happily use those for viewing. Score! Now I'm trying to figure out a way to automate this, as this will be the Holy Grail of round-trip raw editing in iPhoto. If only Apple's developers had gone that last step. I'd love to actually use iPhoto for more than casual occasional use, but this one thing is standing in the way. If I can find a way to automatically replace iPhoto's preview JPEGs I'll be in like Flynn.

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