How to move my iphoto library

Hi
I need to get some room on my Macbook and want to move my photos to an external hard drive. I have iPhoto '08 7.1.5.
a step by step explanation would be great. How and where to create the new library, how I actually move my existing photos there, etc.
thanks much

Select the drive you want to move it to in the Finder and choose Get Info from the File menu. Check the format. If it doesn't start with Mac OS Extended, you need to use the Disk Utility to erase, repartition, or create a disk image on it. Note that disk images on a FAT32 partition must be smaller than 4GB.
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