Can you pull photos from Time Capsules into iPhoto for editing?

I just purchased a new Macbook Pro and Time Capsule.  What I want to do is keep all of my old pictures on the Time Capsule but be able to have them readily available in iPhoto.  Is that possible?  Basically ave them apear in iPhoto like they are native but in reality they are residing only on the Time Capsule.

There is great danger in doing this due to the slow disk access time on the Time Capsule. 
If there is any break in communications between the iPhoto application on your Mac and the iPhoto library on the Time Capsule, the library can become easily corrupted, rendering it useless.
Simply stated, I would never do this. Please post in the iPhoto support area to confirm with the iPhoto experts.
If you decide to try this anyway, make sure that your Mac is connected to the Time Capsule using a wired Ethernet cable. Do not use wireless.
You will also have to figure out a way to back up your iPhoto library that is on the Time Capsule to yet another hard drive.
A better plan to consider would be this:
Add a USB or FireWire hard drive and connect it directly to your Mac.
Move the iPhoto library to the hard drive.
Then, Time Machine will be able to back up both your Mac and the attached hard drive to the Time Capsule. So, you have "originals" on one drive and backups on another.

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