How do I move iPhoto albums off of my computer?

I have made some albums in iPhoto that I want to move to an external hard drive. Just the albums, not the whole LIBRARY. However, I cant drag them or do anything with them. I tried copying and pasting the pictures into a new folder on my hard drive. It works, but doesnt keep them in order. PLEASE HELP!

The Finder's default sorting option is alphanumerical and that's why you're not getting the same order as you had in iPhoto.   If you want to have the photos in that specific order outside of iPhoto you will have to sequentially rename the photos inside iPhoto via Photos ➙ Batch Change ➙ Title to Text with a sequential number added at the end of the file name:
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and then export them to a folder outside of iPhoto with the titles as the new file names.
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