Transferring images from one iPhoto library to another.....

I recently went on holiday and took lots of photos and loaded them daily onto my MBP, however now I am back home and I would like to transfer the holiday photos to my iMac which holds my master iPhoto library.
What is the best way to go around this to ensure that I do not lose any images and/or image quality.
Thanks in advance.

Ideally just plug your camera into the other computer and import the pictures.
If the pictures are no longer on the camera then put both your Macs on the same network and turn on Photo Sharing: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iPhoto/8.0/en/6371.html
__You can then drag the photos from the one computer's iPhoto Library to the other.
Alternatively you can highlight the pictures you want on the other computer and go to File > Export > File Export > Kind > Original and export to a folder on the desktop. You can then move that folder using File Sharing or an external drive to the other computer and import them there.
And Finally, you could burn them to a disk and then bring the disk over.
All these methods give you the exact same image you imported to iPhoto originally. No loss of image quality.
Hope that helps.

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