How to share iPhoto with other accounts in same machine

If I have a lot of pictures in iPhoto in my IMAC and want to be able to share with my wife when she login in as her. Is that possible. Thanks.

What version of iPhoto do you have?
The easiest and most reliable method is to move the Library to an external Hard Disk and point her iPhoto and yours at it.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
5. Then, in each account, Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and select the Library on the External.
Remember only one person can open the Library at a time.
Regards
TD

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