How to back up photos ONLY?

Hi there - I am running a 2011 MB Air with all software updated. I want to back up all my photos from iPhoto (and ONLY the photos, i.e. none of the rest of my data), onto a WD 1tb hard drive. Then I want to delete most of the photos from iPhoto, thus saving a whole lot of memory, and leaving my photos effectively stored "in a library" on the hard drive, which I will back up regularly to another drive.
Then, I want to be able to use my MB Air and iPhoto to edit / mess around with the photos from the hard drive, but without storing them all on the laptop. I may want to keep a couple of hundred on it, but otherwise not.
I have an entirely separate hard drive that I use for regular time machine back-ups.
Can you tell me if / how this is possible, or perhaps suggest another way to keep my photos off the MB Air, but readily accessible? I don't want to use the Cloud, but I guess I could use a disc...
Or am I nuts?
Cheers in advance!

AlecLondon wrote:
... I want to back up all my photos from iPhoto (and ONLY the photos, i.e. none of the rest of my data), onto a WD 1tb hard drive. ...
How to correctly move your media:
iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD
It is important that the External Hard Drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
AlecLondon wrote:
... Then I want to delete most of the photos from iPhoto, thus saving a whole lot of memory, and leaving my photos effectively stored "in a library" on the hard drive,
Make sure that all is working to your Satisfaction before Deleting anything.
AlecLondon wrote:
Then, I want to be able to use my MB Air and iPhoto to edit / mess around with the photos from the hard drive, but without storing them all on the laptop....
With the EHD connected... Hold Down the Option key when starting iPhoto and select the one on the EHD.
AlecLondon wrote:
... which I will back up regularly to another drive.
And you could also consider adding this Photos Drive to your TM Backup as well..

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