IPhoto back up and avail space?

If I back up iPhoto to my external drive, can I delete photos from iPhoto on my main hard drive to free up space? Will my pics on the external drive be retrievable and how? If they try to re-load into iPhoto everytime it will defeat the purpose as I have more photos/videos than space. Basically I'm just low on iPhoto space and looking for solutions to easily access pics while freeing up space.

A back up is a copy. That is, the data exists in two places - at least. If the library is only on your external, and the external goes down, what do you do?
I have multiple back ups and two HDs permanently connected to my iMac.
I'm wondering if I should just back up iPhoto pics/videos to external drive and then delete all videos from my main iPhoto on the computer to free up room
Here's one way to do that
1. Quit iPhoto.
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the external drive.
Now you have two full copies of the Library. To choose between them: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
3. On the Internal Library, remove the pics you don't want with you all the time.
Now you have one full library on the external and another smaller sub-set on the Internal.
A couple of comments:
a. The external disk needs to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
b: When you're removing the unwanted pics from the Internal Library you need to delete them in batches of about 100 or so. Trashing more at one time can cause problems with the database.
c: Managing Multiple Libraries - including moving pics/albums/rolls and metadata between them - is greatly facilitated by using iPhoto Library Manager
But remember, now the material on the External is not a back up, and needs to be backed up
Regards
TD

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Other things you can do to gain space.
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