Streaming Photos Without SYNCing ????

I would like to STREAM photos from my iMac to the Aplle TV without SYNC them.
In other words I do not want them stored on the Apple TV.
Someone told me I had to "pair" my Apple TV to my iMac for streaming.
I do believe that yesterday I was 'streaming' a movie to the ATV, or at least I was playing it as it was SYNCing.
Thanks fort he help!

Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
If you have syncing enabled then you need to sync photos in order to stream them, you can of course turn syncing off and just stream everything including photos, but I'm not sure this is what you want to do.
There is one other alternative, it's a little messy and for mac users only and that's to have a second user account on your mac and have itunes as a stream only library within it and have a shared photo library between the two user accounts.

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