opening camera RAW from lightroom

hey,
today I got Adobe Lightroom and am trying to use it instead of using Bridge. I have been watching video tutorials and trying to get this program working the way I want it too.

I shoot in RAW and then convert to .DNG when I am uploading files to the computer. In Bridge, I would just double-click a photo and it would open photoshop and the camera RAW box where I could easily edit exposure, saturtation, curves, etc. However in Lightroom, when I right-click on a photo and click "edit in photoshop CS3" I get a box asking how it wants to open and edit the photo. The only choice i have is "edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments", so i press OK and the photo opens in Photoshop. The problem is that photoshop doesnt open the Camera RAW box first(or at all), it just opens the photo as a .PSD file and doesnt ever give me the Camera RAW box.

does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Lightroom incorporates Camera Raw in its code... along with a few extra goodies that aren't in Camera Raw, I believe.

You do all your saturation, exposure, etc in the develop module.

(Only thing its missing is the updates of Camera Raw 4.1... which should be incoroporated in a "soon" to come update to lightroom.)


(If you wish to open the actual RAW file in Bridge (and see any lightroom edits you may have made) you need to choose the option to write edits to sidecar .xmp file; then in bridge open the RAW file. But since, as I said, all your develop tools are built into Lightroom, there shouldn't be much of a need to go to Photoshop's Camera Raw after using Lightroom.)

thanks David,
now it makes sense. so far i really like lightroom, except its slow sometimes and freezes up on me