IMac 500Gb HD is nearing capacity. Can I move my photos from iPhoto to 1Tb external drive?

My new iMac's 500Gb HD is nearing capactiy. Due to my many photos. Can I remove all of the photos from iPhoto on iMac and export all my photos to a dedicated 1Tb external drive. And can I then manage the photos via iPhoto on my iMac? Thanks.
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Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
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