Deleting unwanted web images from hard drive

I discussed with a friend that my computer got up to 70 GB full, and even when I took most of my photos off it, the memory did not increase much. He told me I needed to delete all the unwanted web images which I would have been downloading over the last few years. Could someone please tell me how to do this. Thank you

Hello Annabel,
You can empty your web browser's cache. This will delete a lot of accumulated stuff from visited sites.
If you are using Safari, from the top menu bar under Safari you should see this option. ( This could vary depending on which version of browser you are using but you get the idea I hope.)
As to your deleting photos, note that after you delete photos etc, you need to _empty the trash_ to recover that disk space again.
If you delete photos from within iPhoto, these images are held in the iPhoto application and the trash has to be deleted from within there to recover the space, rather than Finder.
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