Deleting photos after backup?

Hi. I have over 7,000 photos and am getting an error that start up disk is full. After going to the Apple store I was told to export my photos. I have done that, now how do I delete them from my iphoto on my macbook pro so that it frees up space?

This is iPhoto for iOS, not the Mac. 
But to be helpful, what you do is simply highlight the photos you want to delete, right click, and click Trash.  The selected photos will be moved to the Trash in iPhoto (not the trash can in your Dock)
Be sure to empty your iPhoto trash in order to free up disk space.  Right click on the trash can in the iPhoto left sidebar and click on Empty Trash.

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