Is there a way to safely delete a backup session from Time Machine?

I'm trying to free up internal hard drive space and need to remove old photos from internal HD that have been backed up. I hadn't renamed or keyworded many photos yet and want to remove that backup session and replace with newly updated versions. Thank you!

Are you using the internal HD as a Time Machine partition? If so this is a HUGE HUGE HUGE mistake. If that HD crashes (actually when) you will have lost both your data and backup. Time Machine is intended to be used on an external HD and that HD should be dedicated to TM only, if you use it for anything else the same rule applies!!!!
However I'm hoping I am just misunderstanding your question, can you restate it.
If you want to move your media libraries (iTunes, Iphoto & iMovie) to an external HD, Apple explains how in:
iTunes: How to move the library to an EHD
iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD
iMovie: How to move the Library to an EHD

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