Sharing photos and enabling copy

Hi all
I have a main mac that has all my photos in an iPhoto library wich is shared with my macbook. I can view all the photo's from my mac on my macbook but I cannot drag and drop them out of iPhoto onto the desktop the same way I can if I was sitting on the main mac itself. If not, is there another, easy way?
Is there a way to enable it so that I could drag photo from the shared library onto the desktop of my macbook.
I need to do it because I'm doing scrap-booking and would to edit the photo's and manipulate them while I'm on the macbook.
Any help would be much appreciated

Gambit
Try drag the photo from the shared library into your library, and from there to the desktop.
Regards
TD

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