iPhoto ’11: The Macintosh iLife Guide to using iPhoto with OS X Lion and iCloud

Accessing Shared Photos

To access shared photos, choose Preferences from the iPhoto menu, click the Sharing button, and be sure the Look for Shared Photos box is checked. iPhoto scans your network and, if it finds any shared photo libraries, adds their names to the Shared area of the Library list.

To view a shared library, click its name.

Working with Shared Photos

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You can browse, but you can’t search. That is, you can’t use iPhoto’s searching features to look for specific photos in a shared library. Indeed, when you select a shared library, the Search button isn’t visible.

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