Mac is getting to full of photos need to move to external HD

My Macbook HD is getting full of photos, I need to move to a external HD but how do I get Iphoto work where I can go back and forth between the Macbook and External Iphotos?

To run iPhoto on an external drive it must be formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)
Quit iPhoto, drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive, depress the option key, launch iPhoto and use the select library command to choose the new location.
After testing you can delete the old library
If you want two libraries (one on the MB and one in the EXD) depress the option key, launch iPhoto and create a new library. To switch between them option launch. iPhoto Library Manager is useful for managing multiple libraries.
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