How do i download my all my photo albums onto an external hard drive?

How do I download all my photos from photo albums onto my hard drive??

Ok thank you but i really do not have a bloody clue what I am doing (don't laugh)! so I go into IPhoto and where do I drag my "Albums" to exactly ?? the reason I ask this is because earlier I connected my new hard drive (3TB) to my lap top, and believed all my photos were downloaded onto the hard drive but they haven't!!  So how do I go about doing this please.

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