How can I save my photos on a removable hard drive for easy viewing?

I just got a brand new Macbook Pro and I wanted to transfer some of the photos from my old computer over to my new computer (from a My Passport removable hard drive), but I found that this wasn't possible with how I had saved then with iPhoto. I now have all of my photos on my new computer, but don't want to waste all that space. How can I save the photos I don't want on this computer to my removable hard drive for easy viewing? When I look at the removable hard drive now, it's saved altogether as iPhoto Library, so I can't just see certain ones...

While in iphoto,hold down the command key and select all the pics you want to move. Once all the pics are selected, release the command key and select export from the file menu. Iphoto will present a dialog box where you can select the quality of the pics before exporting. Then export them to whereever you would like. If you want to put them on an external HD then select that.When you wish to view them,you can use preview or right click on any pic and choose which program to open them with.After doing this if you no longer want them in iphoto then delete them and make sure to empty the trash in iphoto after doing so.

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