Newbie to Aperture and I am a new Imac owner who switched from a PC

I shoot with a Nikon D300 and I keep all of my photos on external hard drives. I perfer to keep my photos located on these drives. How do I move my photos into Apeture to work on my photos and then have them stored on my external hard drives. I use Photoshop CS4 and want to continue to make advanced adjustments within this software. So I do I work within both programs?
Thanks for the help and advice.

And in addition to William's advice, you should do all your photoshop adjustments from within Aperture using the external editor function. That way you can round trip and have the results appear in Aperture immediately after saving in Photoshop.
The one thing to remember is that Aperture is now your photo manager - if you start doing adjustments there and then opening the files independently to Photoshop from the Finder you could end up with quite a mess very quickly...

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