Moving photos from an external hard drive to iPhoto

I recently bought a new Macbook Pro and transferred all of my photos from a Passport external hard drive into iPhoto.
I thought it worked very well but when I pull up the photos in the new computer's iPhoto they are smaller and the resolution is worse than on my old Macbook. I have some of the same photos saved on Dropbox and when I downloaded them and opened them in iPhoto they were larger and the resolution better.
Any suggestions? Is the external hard drive at fault or did I make a mistake when transferring the files to my new Macbook - I just dragged and dropped them.
Thanks for the help!

No idea - how about some information
What version of iPhtoo? Of the OS? What exactly did you do and how did you do it?
Importing photos to iPhoto has no effect on the source photo so your post does not make sense
The most basic answer it to launch iPhoto and drag the photos form the External drive to the iPhoto window which imports them into iPhoto ahas no effect on the photos on the EHD
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