Lightroom to Photoshop & Back :: Two Requests

b Two Related Requests:
1) Easier and more natural integration between Lightroom and Photoshop. Maybe a button at the bottom of the Develop Module. It could fit right next to Previous.
2) The option of saving an image as a PSD rather than have LR automatically save it as a copy. Everytime you start from a raw file and open in Photoshop it creates a new PSD saved to the hard drive, whether you want it or not. Then if you do it again it adds another file with the next number in the name. My preference is to simply have LR open the file in PS and then let the user decide what to do with it from there.
By the way, I do enjoy using Lightroom.
Thank you for your consideration on these requests.
Linda

> My wish would be that LR opens in PS/ACR without saving a file in any
> format. That way, we could choose what to do and how to save in PS.
Me too, please!
For the moment, I take care to save metadata to XMP in LR, then open the raw file directly in photoshop (ACR4.1 develop the files as in LR), and finally save a jpg (or whatever) image that I import and stack with the raw file - there should be a way to automate this workflow, shouldn't be?
Btw, I use Photoshop besides LR for 3 main reasons :
1 masked adjusment layers,
2 merge to HDR, either with the built-in HDR, or simply by blending two exposures with masks,
3 photomerge to make panoramas.
I understand there is a market to share between CS3 and LR ;o) but I'd like to see these functionalities implemented non-destructively in LR!
1 shouldn't be very different from the PS way of doing it, and for 2 and 3 a comfortable way to do that could be to use some sort of "ueber-stack" : select all images to join in a (kind of) stack, and then have the result image at the top of that stack?
Of course, I speak in a user point of view, not a programmer's one ;o)! But I'd really like to make all my PP work in 1 soft only, and LR seems very promising to me.

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