Using Photoshop CS with iPhoto 5

I recently added Photoshop CS to my PowerBook. Can I use this application to edit photos that are in iPhoto? I know it sounds like a basic question, but I don't know where to start. I tried to import a photo from iPhoto to Photoshop to no avail. Can Photoshop be used directly through iPhoto. Any direction would be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Hi KLH1,
You can open up prefs for iPhoto and choose "when double clicking on
photo ..do" choose "other" and select Photoshop. Now you can edit all
pictures in your iPhoto library in PhotoShop by double clicking. If you save the photo with the same name and as a flattened file it will be saved right into iPhoto and you will see the changes. If you don't want to save it into iPhoto then do a "save as" and save to the desktop. You will then have the original photo still in iPhoto and your new edited photo on the desktop. If you want you can then import the photo on the desktop with the changed name into iPhoto by dragging it in the iPhoto library viewing window.

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