How can I free up disk space for iPhoto?

I'm a new Mac user and I've just received a message that says iPhoto has run out of disk space. I've only had this Macbook Pro since March and I do a lot of image editing, but I don't have thousands and thousands of photos or anything. I used the disk utilty and it still appears I have plenty of disk space in general. How can I allot some of this disk space to iPhoto? Is that possible?
Thanks!

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