Saving edited shot back to iPhoto

Hi everyone,
First time poster here, so hoping someone can help!
I just made the move to Photoshop, and for a whole load of reasons I want to continue to use iPhoto to organise my photos. At least until I get more proficient in PS. Importing shots into PS from iPhoto is totally fine, no problems there. But I'd ideally like to have the edited photo save back into the same iPhoto event the original photo's in.
Does anyone have a good workflow for this? Or a way of tweaking preferences in PS so that it happens automatically?
Cheers!
Simon

I just recently started trying to use my Photoshop CS3, after acquiring it 3 years ago, and never quite getting around to tackling it, since I was still using good old PS v.7.0. I finally made the leap. What a shock! The CreativeSuites version is entirely different from the old versions, and, so far, impossible for me to figure out. Most of the functions I was used to are drastically reconfigured from standard PS's. (I'm going to have to get a Users' Manual or take another class.)
One thing I DID figure out is the function you are questioning. Export a downloaded iPhoto shot - from your iPhoto - to the desktop; Open Photoshop and open the iPhoto shot (will be in the Preview mode) in Photoshop, save as a Photoshop tiff, and do whatever editing, retouching, etc. in Photoshop. Save, and then from iPhoto, import - fom desktop - back into iPhoto Library.
If anyone know where i can get a comprehensive (beginners") manual on how to use the CreativeSuite version of Photoshop, please communicate! (After 3 years, I can't locate any manual that may have come with the software and there is no PDF version that I can find on line. I am completely mystified.)

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