How do I import photos to a external hard drive vs. mac hd?

I want to import photos into a external drive. The only information I can find talks about importing into iphoto library( on Mac hd). My drive will fill up too quickly. I need to import to a external drive, then import to iphoto without a copy. I basically only want a pointer to the external drive.

Hello, 4check,
You can use Image Capture (found in your Applications folder) to download your photos from your camera. You can choose to have the photos put wherever you wish. You can have them on your external drive and then you can select the ones you want to import into iPhoto. This will give you two copies of the photos that you put into iPhoto. If you don't want backups on the external drive, you will need to manually delete the ones you import to iPhoto. You might want to think about some type of backup for your photos such as burning them to CD or DVD, or keeping the copies on your external drive.
You might also want to consider putting your whole iPhotoLibrary onto the external drive. This would allow you to have more free space on your computer. You would keep the iPhoto application on your computer's drive.
When you open it, hold down the option key and you will be prompted to locate or create a new library. Choose to create a new one, and specify the external drive for it. Now, when you launch iPhoto, it will open the new library on the external drive.
If you already have your iPhoto Library on your computer's drive, you can just drag it onto the the external drive, open iPhoto and when it asks you to locate the library, again just select the one on the external drive.
By the way, be sure the drive is Mac-formatted before you put anything onto it.
If you put iPhotoLibrary on an external drive, you will still need a backup method.

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