Moving photos from iphoto to EHD & deleting from iMac

Okay, simple question here (i'm hoping for a simple answer!I
I am really confused.  All i want to do is move my iphoto photos onto my external hard-drive (and be able to access them individually through preview or whatever in the future, not back through iphoto).   I want to delete them off my internal hard-drive so that I have more space.  From what I am reading on discussion boards, when you move the iphoto library over it kind of moves it over as a whole and when I access it again it pulls it all back up through iphoto.  I don't need to do that. I just want to store the photos as if they were photos I would pull off the internet and stick em in a folder on the desktop (if this makes sense) .... I don't want it to be saved as a LIBRARY on the EHD, just all the individual photos.
I hope I am making sense here....
So anyway, my question is basic -  How do I move the PHOTOS to an EHD and delete them off the IHD and "start fresh" with nothing in my iphoto... 
I thought if I looked in the file i'd find a list of ALL the images that were imported and stored into iphoto and that I could SELECT all and go - but apparently it's more complicated than that.   If I move that "iphoto library" file onto an EHD, when I go to access them on there are they going to pull up through iphoto or just as photos in a folder and I can individually click on them through there?
Sorry i'm all over the place with this question I just wanna make sure I understand correctly - if anything I will just head up to apple and ask someone
Thanks!

If you plan on not using iPhoto in the future you can do the following:
1 - open the iPhoto Library package with the Finder:
Locate the Originals folder (or the Master's folder if you're using iPhoto 9 (11) and drag it to the EHD. This folder contains all of your original files in subfolders representing the Events they were in in iPhoto.  They will be grouped together as they were imported.
Once you are sure that you have all of the photos in the Originals/Masters folder on the EHD you can drag your iPhoto Library package to the trash and empty it.
NOTE:  you will lose any keyword, titles and comments you have added to those photos in iPhoto. 
OT

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