It’s much easier to export from the Lightroom library.

Most people use Lightroom as their primary raw editor but with Elements set up as the external Editing app to do some of the more fancy stuff involving layers and masks. The initial image is sent to Elements as a PSD or Tiff together with the Lightroom Develop settings but the results after further editing in PSE are saved back to the Lightroom Library.

You normally make the round trip from Lightroom.

1) Cmd+E in the Library to export with develop settings

2) Edit in Elements; then Cmd+S to overwrite Lightroom export copy

3) Cmd+W to close in Elements and update Lightroom thumbnail.

I don't have a Mac, but I am curious to see if the following workaround would work.

With your pictures selected, move them to a new folder 'export1'

From your OS, copy the export1 folder to a new one 'export2'

From the organizer, then /edit/undo move.

You can then delete the empty export1 folder.

That works fine on Windows.

Edit,

Of course this is only part of the 'export' function, but once you have your pictures in a single folder, using the 'process multiple files' features is more powerful than the 'export' function.

rugfoot wrote:

 

The problem is I can't move them to a new folder. If I could I wouldn't have the export problem. I just dragging and dropping but it doesn't work. I have made a selection (15) of photos in Elements Organizer but I can't identify which ones they are (from 300) in the Mac Finder app (= Windows Explorer).

Sorry, I can't test that on a Mac, but I thought that 'Windows only' features would be stated on the Adobe pdf help file, and moving file is not mentionned as Windows only, whereas 'export' is clearly stated as Windows only.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/elementsorganizer/using/elementsorganizer_ 10_help.pdf

Chapter 7  - Move files in a catalog

Edit,

By the way, the very useful faq list in the right panel of this forum links to PSE9, not PSE10 for the location of the guides.