How do I move my photos to external drive

How do I move some of my photos to an external drive to free up space on my hard drive?

And what if I want some of my photos still on my internal drive?
Can I tell iphoto which events I want on the external?
I opened a new library on the external drive. This is working quite good - exept with AppleTV2
So I am looking for a way to have only one (my default library) on the hard drive, but have SOME of the actual date on the external drive...
Mr.Churchil here already suggested to create a new user with an own library. That sounds logical to me - but I don't knwo how to do it...
Can I transfer whole events or photos from one library to another than?

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