How can I easily access my photos from outside iPhoto?

My wife recently got a Mac for the first time and imported all of her photos into iPhoto. Today she was trying to upload some photos to a community website. The website had a Browse button that opened a Finder window. We were quite surprised to find that there was no easy way to access her photos. It seems like they are all in one big 100GB database file. We can "open" that file and in a Master subarea we can find the photos arranged by the date of import.
Is there a way to easily access photos, and find the ones we want? On Windows here photos were just kept in the file system with Albums correspondiong to directories and both Picasa and Windows Live Photo Gallery worked fine with this approach, and it was trivial to find a photo from the explorer.

Is there a way to easily access photos, and find the ones we want?
Absolutely
Under the media heading in the lower left of the browse window click on Photos ==> iPhoto and you events/albums/etc from iPhoto will be there - not sure how much easier it could be
LN

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