All my photos are backed up onto iPhoto, is it safe to delete them off my iPhone?

I have about 1,600 photos on my iphone and need to delete them to move room. I have backed them all up onto iPhoto but am unsure is this ensures saftey of alll of my photos or whether there needs to be a folder in picture for them?

See the following:
iCloud- Backup and restore overview
Should I use iTunes or iCloud to back up my iOS device?
iCloud Help
iCloud- How to back up iCloud data

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Do you mean the "Photo Stream" album in the "Web" section of iPhoto? Like shown here?
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But I'm afraid that if they get backed up to the iCloud that once I delete them when it backs up again the photos will get deleted.
They will be deleted. The new backup will overwrite the backup containing the deleted photos with one that doesn't and they will be lost. Do as AnaMusic says and import them to your computer.

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New to iLife '08, just getting used to the new iPhoto and iMovie. Was trying to backup photos to an external hard drive (and I now realise doing it a stupid way) when it all went a bit wrong - think something went wrong with the external hard drive rather than macbook - and had to force quite and so on.
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idubois
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
If I browse the files using finder (and Show Package Contents) they're all divided into the different folders they were in originally and the way I'd like them to be split into events, so I don't really understand. Any hints?
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or try
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
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