How can I back-up my photos that are in my iPhoto to an external hard drive without using the iPhoto structure.

I am attempting to back-up my entire MacBook Pro on an external hard drive before deleting everything from the MacBook Pro. Although I appreciate iPhotos photo structure and organization, I would prefer to back my photos up outside of the iPhotos structure, using “regular files” such as it appears in iPhoto’s “Masters” folder.  However, I would like the Event names that are currently assigned to my iPhotos to remain attached to the photos.  Is there a simple way to do any of this? Would this be a matter of somehow exporting each Event from my iPhoto? THANKS! 

Terence Devlin wrote:
Stay away from the Masters folder. Rooting around in the Library package can damage the Library and is unnecessary and less useful than the supported way to so this.
Just export the them: File -> Export:
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.
Remember that the Masters won't contain any of the changes that you made, only the files exactly as copied from the camera.
Thanks, Terence.  As far as filenames go...does "Album Name and Number" work for keeping my Events together?

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