Photoshop ELements 5 with Lightroom

Hello,
I´m using PSE 5.0 and interrested in using it in combination with Lightroom for developing RAW-files and organising my photos.
As I saw, it is possible to import a PSE catalogue. Is it possible to use it instead of organizer and start the Elements editor from there. Will the jpg resulting in editor automatically be available in the Lightroom catalogue as it is by using the organizer with the editor?
If you have any experiences I would be interrested.

I use elements 5 with Photoshop and it works quite well. There is a way to turn off the elements organizer and have your images go right to elements. This can be done in elements, so read the documentation.
The only problem I find in Elements is that it has very limited ability to do 16 bit editing. So if you are going to do more than the most basic editing in Elements, you need to convert to 8 bit. Not a problem if you are using jpg files, but if you work in raw, you probably want to convert to tiff files and then change your color gamut to argb or srgb, since pro photo rgb can cause banding when you are editing 8 bit files in that color space.

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