I want to move pictures to a external hard drive.  How do I do that?

My 150 GB MacBook hard drive is nearly full. I want to move pictures off my hard drive to an external hard drive to access them later.  I bought a 1 TB external hard drive and have time machine set up on my computer.  I am beginning to think that the Time Machine might be over kill as I just want more space on the HD and to have a copy of my files if my MacBook should die suddenly.
I know how to do this on a PC.  It is quite simple.  This mac is a different story.  I can't move pictures from iphoto I can only delete them.  Do I need to go in and copy/paste all of them onto the external HD?

Get a second external drive, use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to reformat it as Mac OS Extended(a few drives are preformatted this way), drag the iPhoto library onto it in the Finder, launch iPhoto with the Option key held down, point it there, and then set Time Machine to back that drive up.
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