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Rich-
I've spent a lot of time in the last two weeks trying to get my head around both CO7 and LR. I have come to the conclusion for now, at least, that co7 does a little more, but does not integrate nearly as well with 3P plugins.
I've spent enough time with LR (finally - I bought LR4 because of the book module...and was disappointed that it did not do the one thing I queried adobe on and they said it would do...custom end flaps. Now that I've spent some time and watch a whole number of tutorials, I see why photographers like it so much. I can see where you would still go to PS from time to time, but it is so hard to come back from PS (why is it easier to get from LR to PS, adobe?) that I think you would work harder to try to do all your work in LR. Certainly printing is better! And the OnOne plugins work directly and much faster than in PS.
I have a catalog solution that I think will work - keeping the LR catalog in Dropbox. The worry of corrupting and screwing it up still lies just below the surface for me, but so long as I remember to sync everything before working in LR, I'm going to be fine. Over time I'll find a solution to what I do with all the catalogs (I'm thinking now of one for each year) and where I will put older ones etc., but I've decided that if I lose them, no harm no foul...the raw files still exists and I keep a separate file for each image I actually print - non-destructive be damned, I flatten all of these printed files and save them full sized either as a .psd or .tif. So if the catalogs wind up gone/corrupted, I probably won't really lose much that I care about.
Thanks for your encouragement and help in this...
Tom, the move back to Lightroom should be pretty seamless as well. If you go to External File Editing in Lightroom preferences and tick Stack with original I find this works pretty well.
I open all my documents by default as 16 bit PSD files also set up in preferences.
Open into Photoshop from Lightroom, do your edits and just click save. Close the file in photoshop. If you switch back to Lightroom it should now be showing the image you just edited in Photoshop, which should be placed next to the orginal file in the catalogue. If I want it somewhere else I now move it in Lightroom which maintains the Catalogue integrity.