Managing photos on a mac??

On my laptop I have iPhoto since ages, and I've never used it until my friend who recently told me that he uses it to manage his family pictures etc, so I tried it out and I found it really easy to put my pictures in place, but I use adobe photoshop CS6 to edit my photos, and what exactly want help from you is that I want to edit photos with photoshop, but I want to keep them arranged in iPhoto '09, if this is not possible then do let me know and I will switch back to arranging them in FINDER.... Any help will be great!! Thank you!

The following will give you tips on:
Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
The screenshots are for PS CS3 so may not be what you see in your CS6. However, the general idea is the same.
1 - select Photoshop or Photoshop Elememts as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window
that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
NOTE: With Photoshop Elements the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:
I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always. In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:
Note: to switch between iPhoto and PS or PSE as the editor of choice Control (right)-click on the thumbnail and select either Edit in iPhoto or Edit in External Editor from the contextual menu. If you use iPhoto to edit more than PSE re-select iPhoto in the iPhoto General preference pane. Then iPhoto will be the default editor and you can use the contextual menu to select PSE for your editor when desired.
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Google translation:
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