Tiny bug: external editors

I sometimes use Photoshop to do photo editing of pix in iPhoto. After a session using Photoshop I reset the iPhoto preferences so that a double click opens the image full screen.
In previous versions of iPhoto, the preferences would remember the location of the Photoshop app from one session to the next. Open the preferences, select Edit in Photoshop, and you were set.
iPhoto '06 requires that you locate the Photoshop app each time you change the preference. Weird. Not a big deal but annoying. And, yes, I've sent in a bug report.
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   2gb RAM

If you want to have both available, set it for
Photoshop and then back to the iPhoto edit window.
Then to bring up Photoshop just Control-click on the
photo and select "Edit in external editor" from the
contextual menu. The best of both worlds that way.
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Old Toad,
I am happy to find this tip in a search. After installing iP6 without problems (I made 4 backups of my library), my first reaction to the new editing scheme was negative. Much of the time in iP5, the internal editor was enough, but sometimes I wanted to go to Photoshop elements. Not having both editors was going to be a nuisance. But your tip makes it easy to use either editor again.
Thanks!
BC
G4 450DP   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   1.63GB RAM, 16" Paiste China Crash

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