Password protect photo's on Mac Air

Can i password protect all my photo's on my Air so that in order to view iphoto, a password has to be entered?
Thank you,

Not directly. Remember, your computer's account itself is passworded and you can use System Preferences > Security to set a password on sleep and screen saver which will require a password to wake up the computer or stop the screen saver. If that doesn't suffice then your other option is to place your picture library in an encrypted disk image using Disk Utility. After doing this you'll have to delete the original iPhoto library and then always remember to mount the disk image before starting iPhoto. (Which is something of a pain.) The first option should suffice.

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