Best way to manage photos btwn 2 comps

Hello,
You will see my spec of my computers below. I use the iMac for Logic and sometimes set it up in recording studios for my clients to use. But most of the time it's home with me. I'm debating whether I should keep any pictures on it at all or if there's a way that they'll read pics off a hard drive. Theoretically-If the iPhoto Library file itself was on an external HD, could both my laptop and iMac read it?

Theoretically-If the iPhoto Library file itself was on an external HD, could both my laptop and iMac read it?
Yes.
Quit iPhoto on both machines.
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to an external HD set to ignore permissions.
On each machine in turn: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue, select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new library location. From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both machines will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Regards
TD

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