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Share Photo Streams
While your photos in Photo Stream are shared among all your connected devices, you use Shared
Photo Streams (see Figure 5-5) to share photos with other people. A Shared Photo Stream is effect-
ively a gallery of photos you select and is controlled from any of your iCloud-connected devices. Let's
say, for example, that you go on holiday and want to share photos from your trip with friends and
family back home. All you need to do is create a Shared Photo Stream and invite contacts to view it.
Figure 5-5
Shared Photo Streams
Whenever you want to share a photo, rather than attach it to an e-mail or share your entire Photo
Stream, you simply send the image to the Shared Photo Stream you created and all those people you
invited will be able to see it and, in some cases, be notified that a new photo has been added. This is a
handy alternative to Facebook or Twitter and is more personal than uploading images to a social me-
dia site because you can quickly set who sees the photos and upload them without having to worry
about adjusting privacy settings each time.
Friends can access your Shared Photo Stream on an iOS device, a Mac, or on the web, and they
can even “like” photos and add comments if they want.
You can create and add photos to a Shared Photo Stream on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch run-
ning iOS 6, from iPhoto 9.4 or later or Aperture 3.4 or later on a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion,
and via Windows Explorer on PCs running Windows Vista or later and the iCloud control panel; in-
vites are sent via e-mail.
To see a Shared Photo Stream, people need an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 6 (the
images are viewed in the Photos app) or a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion and iPhoto (where the
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