iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual

258 iphoto ’08: the missing manual

It’s far more practical to turn on the checkboxes for the individual albums you want

to share, as shown in Figure 10-16.

Unless you also turn on “Require password” (and make up a password), everyone on

the network with iPhoto 4 or higher can see your shared pictures.

Finally, close the Sharing window.

At this point, other people on your network will see your albums show up in their

Source lists, above the list of their own albums; see Figure 10-17. (Or at least they will

if they have “Look for shared photos” turned on in their iPhoto Preferences.)

As you may know, when you share iTunes music over a network, other people can

only listen to your songs—they can’t actually have them. (The large, well-built lawyers

of American record companies have made sure of that.)

But iPhoto is another story. Nobody’s going to issue you a summons for freely distrib-

uting your own photos. So once you’ve jacked into somebody else’s iPhoto pictures

via the network, feel free to drag them into your own iPhoto albums, thereby copying

them onto your own Mac. Now you can edit them, print them, and otherwise treat

them like your own photos.

Photo Sharing Across Accounts

Mac OS X is designed from the ground up to be a multiple-user operating system.

You can set up Mac OS X with individual user accounts so that everyone must log in.

Photo Sharing

on the Network

Figure 10-17:

You can’t delete or edit the photos you’ve

summoned from some other Mac. But you

can drag them into your own albums (or

your own Photo Library) to copy them. (The

Shares heading appears in your Source list

only if iPhoto detects at least one shared

iPhoto collection on the network.)

When you’ve had enough, click the E but-

ton. The flippy triangle, the list of albums,

and the E button itself disappear. The

names of shared collections (like “Casey’s

Photos” and “Robin’s Photos” in this exam-

ple) remain on the screen, in case you want

to bring them back for another look later.

All shared

photo libraries “Eject” button

Individual shared

photo libraries