PSE12 as external editor in iPhoto

I have selected PSE12 as my external editor in iPhoto Preferences, but when I select a photo and click edit, only PSE opens, not the photo. How can I fix this? Thanks.

I've also selected "SAve As to Original Folder".
No, never, never, never this when using iphoto. That's telling PSE to try to write Save As into the iphoto library, a sure-fire way to corrupt it and lose all your photos. Please change that back.
Yes, iphoto doesn't do PSD, but you can use TIFF instead.

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