HT5182 How can I back up photos from iPhoto to external hard drive?

I have a large number of photos that I need to move onto an external hard drive to free up my MBP's internal hard drive.  Most of my photos were imported in RAW format and editied in iPhoto.  I understand from other posts that iPhoto converts these photos to jpegs.  I'm quickly running out of room.

Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

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