Photoshop and Iphoto

Question

Can someone tell me why when im using photoshop file>open I can not open a photo in IPhoto I used to be able to do this now I can not.
using photoshop ver 8
Iphoto 09
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Answer 1

No, once again.
iPhoto blurs photos that it straightens -- in a significant and unusable way. Elements does not.
True about panorama and photo stitching. But I was just describing the sorts of things I use Elements for, and why I like to go to Elements first, not last.
Yes, filters might very well be easily applied before importing to iPhoto. That's what I'm currently doing now as a workaround (or re-importing as a new file). But I shouldn't have to. It's supposed to be an external editor accessible from right in the application itself. The application should continue to function as advertised and expected after using this feature. And art doesn't always follow a direct pattern or strict routine. What if someone decides to load a bunch of shots into iPhoto -- which is his/her preferred method for organizing photos and he/she likes to keep them all in one place? This is, in fact, a very common way in which iPhoto is used, and is the whole point behind the idea of an option of using an external program to edit within iPhoto.
So, the photos are in iPhoto where they go, and then he/she decides (maybe a few weeks later when sitting down to really fine-tune things), "hey, you know, I'd like to take advantage of that 'external editor from within iPhoto' option"? If this happens, then the only way to get iPhoto to behave properly with the files is to either "save as" from Elements or export from iPhoto, and then in either case reimport the new files. Sometimes you do some tweaking in iPhoto, then go to another program, and then come back to where your photos "belong". Then you might want to tweak some more. I often find that iPhoto's tools, as simple as they are, add a nice little something at the end of a piece I've been working on elsewhere, often in the livening colors or optimizing levels department, which ties the whole thing together at the end. Sort of like how a nice bit of reverb on a submix or some compression on the two-buss will get a song to gel perfectly at the end of a mix. We're not using darkrooms here anymore, or recording straight to tape. The whole point of digital is to be able to come back to it the next morning and give it a second look/listen, and back off on those faders if need be once your mind and eyes/ears have returned to the light of day.
Your sarcasm with the "etc." is not appreciated. If you'd like to help, help. If not, don't.
The reasons I posted about this were:
1) To give a warning to those discussing how easy it is to have the "best of both worlds" that once they've edited in the external, the iPhoto editing won't work as expected anymore
2) To ask if anyone knew of a way that I had not been able to find that would simply turn off this behavior, treating externally edited files as if they were newly imported ones -- or was it just a bug?
3) To see if there were any possible workarounds in the way in which photos were saved, labeled, imported, or whatever that would perhaps keep this change in behavior from occurring.
It looks like, as TD has pointed out, it is a bug that will need to be fixed. And there don't appear to be any ways of doing things with the files in which externally edited photos will be treated as newly imported ones.
But there's no point in defending this clear bug in iPhoto by acting like the limits that this bug have placed on us are really just a better workflow. That's absurd. The point is, iPhoto is the photo organizer application. If you use it, it's where your photos reside, and where they end up. It sure would be nice to be able to use the various useful, nondestructive tools that you normally can use with iPhoto once you have used one of iPhoto's supposed features, editing with an external application from within it. The fact that it doesn't work properly is not the end of the world, and exporting and reimporting works fine, if a bit clumsily and with some extra, seemingly unnecessary steps. Hopefully they'll fix this in a future release.