Moving my photo's

Hi,
I have recently invested in an external hard drive, now I want to move my iPhoto's pics (and also future downloads of pics) from my Mac hard drive to this external hard drive.
Does any one have any ideas how to do this?
Ali

Hello,
Follow the instructions in this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93603
As you'll have a duplication of the Library as part of the process, you'll need to rename and/or move the current library on the internal drive as point 2b before proceeding with 3.
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