How do I move pictures from my MacBook Pro to a USB/External Hard drive?

I can't figure out how to trasfer pictures and files from my MacBook Pro to my USB hard drive. Help please?

We could use a little more information, are you trying to move from a folder to an external drive? Or are you moving from IPhoto.
Either way should be able to select the pictures you want and drag them to your external.
If you have not used the drive before you may need to format the external drive with Disk Utility. You will need to choose a catalog method and what you choose should depend on if you plan to use a Mac only, or Mac and PC.

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