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Chapter 24 Sharing Your Photos Online 559
Sharing Photo Streams
An Overview of Shared Photo Streams
Sharing a photo stream is an easy way to keep the important people in your life up to date with
your latest photos. Invitees, who must have an iCloud account to join the photo stream, can view,
“like,” and comment on your photos from any device set up with Photo Stream. Those invitees
without an iCloud account are sent a link to a webpage to view the shared photos; however, they
cannot comment on the photos.
Heres how shared photos streams work:
First, set up Photo Stream on any Apple device that you want to be part of your photo stream.
Then, select a photo on your iOS device or select a photo in your Aperture or iPhoto library.
Create a shared photo stream to share your photo with your friends.
Your friends initially receive an email inviting them to subscribe to your shared photo stream.
When they accept, the stream appears on their iOS devices or within Aperture and iPhoto.
All subsequent photos shared in that photo stream automatically appear on the subscribers’
Apple devices.
You and your friends can comment on and like shared photos, as well as reply to
the comments.
Your friends are alerted to new comments and photos by notications on their iOS devices and
in OS X. You are alerted to new comments from your friends, but only you can add photos to and
remove photos from the streams you create.
Note: Photo stream sharing requires OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.2 or later.
Turning On Shared Photo Streams in Aperture
You can turn Shared Photo Streams on and o independently of My Photo Stream.
To turn Shared Photo Streams on and o in Aperture
1 Choose Aperture > Preferences, then click Photo Stream.
2 Do one of the following:
To turn on Shared Photo Streams: Select the Shared Photo Stream checkbox.
To turn o Shared Photo Streams: Deselect the Shared Photo Stream checkbox.
After you turn o Shared Photo Streams in Aperture, you can continue to add photos to and
remove photos from your shared photo streams using your other Apple devices.