Using Lightroom in conjunction with a Lab using Bridge

I use Lightroom for my photography on my laptop. However, I am taking a class that uses a calibrate lab and printer setup that only uses Bridge and does not have Lightroom. I would like to manage the photos on lightroom, but export and import the photos to be printed and edited in the lab. Is there a way to do this slickly in Lightroom besides pulling each photo in and out each time? I know how to export in mass, but I don't know how to import a significant number of photos back in after editing. Thanks!
-photolede

Not sure why you would want to re import images you have sent to be printed. It doesn't really matter what the particular software is being used by the class is to print from (and you can't print from Bridge as far as I am aware...it is just a file browser) as long as the system is colour managed (and of course your own system running LR is also colour managed). All you need to do is use LR's print module, print to jpg files from that using whatever the colour profile used by the final printer and on the correct size and type of paper being used. Pass these off to them and the job is done, no further editing should be required at the printing side of things. I

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However it seems like the lines between some of the Adobe products is getting blurred.
Seems like? No, the capabilities of these two programs definitely overlap.
And from what I've read and looked at on Lightroom, it doesn't seem like it really can do anything that Elements cannot do, other than do some functions easier, one example being straightening.
Things like layers and magic extraction tool and a whole bunch of other PSE editor tools are not available in Lightroom.
First question: If I have both Elements and Lightroom, can someone give me one or more practical (and not overly complex) examples of using both together on a single photo? Please don't include functions that are available in both pieces of software, unless it gives superior results that can be obtained by one but not the other.
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Second question: I don't use raw (yet), so if editing a jpg with both Elements and Lightroom, doesn't it have to be saved in one before editing in the other?
None of the capabilities of Lightroom are limited to RAW photos. After you edit a photo In LR and want to send it to PSE, the built in LR function called "Edit In..." will make the copy for Elements to use, launch PSE (if it is not already opened) and allow you to do your edits. Then you save the edited photo (not Save As...) and Lightroom will recognize the changes made in PSE.
Obviously I am asking because I am aware of the loss of info due to compression when doing multiple saves and opens on a jpg. Yes, saving at level 12 might minimize it but there would still be loss of info*.
In the process I described, there are two such saves (one by LR and one by PSE). You could eliminate the quality loss (at the expense of much larger files) by telling LR to create a TIF instead of a JPG for editing in PSE.

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Jao, thanks for the speedy reply. I'm sorry to hear that it can't be done; I've tried processing a TIFF in Lightroom, but it works rather differently from the way processing a .NEF works, and the results just don't look good to me.
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The search continues. . . .

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Workflow: Will this work? Camera RAW to iPad3 to Lightroom???
I would like to use my new iPad3 in conjunction with my already-established Lightroom workflow on my desktop Mac. What I have in mind is to shoot in RAW (Sony SLT A-65 - 24.3 megapixels) and then, in the field, transfer my photos from the camera to the iPad3 (64GB version). On the iPad I might do some rudimentary editing - deleting duds, etc. - but I will still do all my significant editing in Lightroom on the Mac. Thus, I need to import the photos, from the iPad, in either RAW or DNG into LightRoom once I get back to my office. My questions are:
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http://www.shuttersnitch.com/
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Marc,
Thanks for pointing that out. That is truly excellent!
Ben
"Marc Prud'hommeaux" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Ben-
We do currently have a plug-in for backing our data cache with a
Tangosol cache.
See: http://docs.solarmetric.com/manual.html#datastore_cache_config
In article <[email protected]>, Ben Eng wrote:
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