I am wondering how to have iPhoto draw all photos from an external hard drive so I don't need to have them all on my iMac?

I would like to save some space on my hard drive but having all pictures on a external hard drive for iPhoto to draw from. I am able to do this on iTunes but do not see how to do this on iPhoto.

Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

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