Combining I-Photo Libraries

I have 2 screen's on my mac (one mine and one my husbands) Both screens have their own password to access. We have I-photos on both screens with different pictures. Is there any way to combine the 2 iphoto libraries into 1? I have tried e-mailing the pictures I want to myself & then adding them back into I-photo but they lose some of the resolution

The easiest and best is to connect the computers together and use iPhoto library manager to merge the libraries - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/
LN

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