Preserving keywords when exporting then reimporting photos

Hi all,
I have a lot of photos which are very big (8 megapixels at 95% quality) and they take a lot of space on my small MacBook. I would like to export them, delete from iPhoto, resize and then reimport. Unfortunately, I have added one keyword (Favorite) to some of these photos and I would not like to lose that information.
Any idea how I can preserve this single bit of information (i.e. the Favorite keyword) when doing my export, delete, resize, reimport routine?
Thanks.

Avinash
You can resize the pics plus write the keywords to the file if you export using the File -> Export dialogue.
You do realise that by doing this you will a: reduce the quality of your pics and b: defeat the non-destructive editing feature of iPhoto.
If space is an issue then I suggest that you run your library from an external disk - they are quite inexpensive now and portable ones are available.
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
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