File managing between Pictures, iPhoto, iPhoto library

I am doing a clean-up of my hard drive, trying to get rid of duplicate files. My only issue is the photos. I have 3 places where photos seem to reside and each takes up a large amount of space. I would like to delete what I can, but I don't know the relationship between each file and don't want to lose any pictures or picture files. The three are:
Pictures (file) - 77.3 GB
iPhoto (when I open iPhoto, these are the numbers/memory listed) - 43.9 GB, 11,558 photos, 582 movies
iPhoto Library - 18.7 GB
Where should I go to start the clean-up/duplicate annihilation? It makes me nervous to start but I have run out of room on my Mac and would like to clean everything up before buying a new hard drive or new external.
Thanks,
Trevor

Here is an App. you might want to try: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/araxisfindduplicatefiles.html

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