How to completely delete photos?

Hi, I am using iphoto 5 on my G5 iMac running leopard. I am taking a digital photo class and we are taking a lot of 'test' pictures to learn the manual controls. So I am deleting 75% of them after downloading, in order to determine which meet the class assignment. But I went into the iphoto library and the photos I've deleted are still there in the folders by year and download. It appears that while I deleted them from the library, they still live in the iphoto library files.
So how do I completely delete photos that I don't want? It seems laborious to have to go into the library files in my user folder and have to open each year and folder and relook at them to find the ones I didn't want. I looked in iphoto preferences and didn't see any setting for how deep to delete. Can anyone help?
Michelle
in seattle

To delete photos: Put them in the iPhoto Trash and then empty the trash.
It seems laborious to have to go into the library files in my user folder and have to open each year and folder and relook at them to find the ones I didn't want.
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
Regards
TD

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