Please help - trying to manage photos without deleting them!

I am trying to manage the photos on my ipad, because it is full.
I have imported lots of photos directly from my camera, and these are also backed up on my pc. I want to remove them from the ipad without deleting them on my pc, however when I select them for deletion on the ipad,  I get a message asking if I want to "delete them everywhere" and I am worried that I will lose them altogether if I accept.
But.......
There is no alternative option offered. So the result is that I don't dare delete them and therefore my ipad remains full.
Does anyone know the way around this?
Thanks.
Baffled of London.

Have you copied the photos into other albums that you've created directly on your iPad ? If you have then that effectively just creates pointers to the photos, so if you delete the original photo from the iPad you will also be deleting all pointers to it and therefore remove it from any albums that you've added it to on the iPad. That is one reason why the 'delete everywhere' message appears.
Or do you have photo stream on (Settings > iCloud > Photo Stream) ? If you do then deleting a photo that is in your photo stream will remove it from any device/computer that is seeing the Photo Stream album.
Otherwise it shouldn't be removed from anywhere. I assume that by backing them up on your PC you copied them over by the windows camera wizard or something similar, you don't just mean an iPad's backup ? Any photos copied over by the camera wizard won't be removed if you delete the same photo from your iPad - if you want to be sure then delete just one of them from your iPad, then connect the iPad, and the copy of the photo on your computer should still be there when you disconnect it.

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