PhotoShop Elements 11

basically iPhoto and Apeture are the same for storing photos

Many users find PS uncessary with Aperture or only used for very special cases

As to the workflow - it is fine

And there is no need to ups iPhoto at all if you do not want to

No one can tell you what is best for you - only you can determine that

Not sure waht your question is other than you want someone else to make an impossible decission for you - we can tell you how to do thing in iPhoto - the Aperture forum can tell you how to do things in Aperture - there are Adobe forums that can help you with PS and PSE no one can tell you what is best for you

LN

I use PSE and love it. That said, I isued PS before getting my first Mac. It was much less expensive than purchasing Aperture and it has many more capabilities than the iPhoto version that came preinstalled on my MacBook.

I may be preaching to the choir here but the following may be of interest to you:

Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.

1 - select Photoshop or Photoshop Elememts as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.

2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.

3 - however, if you get the navigation window

that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.

This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..

NOTE: With Photoshop Elements the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:

I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always. In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:

Note: to switch between iPhoto and PS or PSE as the editor of choice Control (right)-click on the thumbnail and select either Edit in iPhoto or Edit in External Editor from the contextual menu. If you use iPhoto to edit more than PSE re-select iPhoto in the iPhoto General preference pane. Then iPhoto will be the default editor and you can use the contextual menu to select PSE for your editor when desired.

OT

Any help greatly appreciated. When I save changes they are not reflected in Aperture. I have followed these steps. I start with Nikon Raw (AKA NEF). Aperture creates a copy with PSD extension passes that to PSE 11.

What am I missing?

Please ignore. It turns out that Quick Edit fails. Guided and Expert changes do saved and are reflected in Aperture. Only took 8 hours to solved. 😁