Quick iPad Photo Library Cleanup?

Our 32GB iPad Mini running iOS7 is nearly full. We have 18GB of photos on the mini. So...
I’d like to quickly delete all the photos that we have NOT included in a “user” album (e.g. albums other than Camera Roll, Videos, Imported Photos & Videos, Last Import and All Imparted). Is this possible? If so can it be done by the either the Photos or iPhoto apps.
I understand that the albums are actually pointers to the photos in the Photo Library. I’m just hoping that Photos or iPhoto can use the album pointers to determine which photos NOT to delete.
If this isn't possible, is there an easy way to export and then re-import the photos in an album AND maintain the same sort order?
—GetRealBro

Here’s what I did to cleanup the 18GB of photos on our iPad mini….
* We had already collected the 5GB of photos that we wanted to keep on the iPad into albums using the Photos app.
* Wirelessly transferred each album to a separate folder on a Mac using PhotoSync.
* Deleted ALL 18GB of the photos off of the iPad using Image Capture on a Mac. Note: this does not delete the album structure. It just empties the albums.
* Wirelessly transferred the keepers back into the appropriate albums using PhotoSync.
* Reorganized the albums where necessary. Note: Some of the albums actually retained the photo organization
This freed up roughly 13GB of space on the iPad.
Cleaning up 15GB of photos on our iPad taught me that iPads are NOT a very good place to import and organize photos. In fact, the Apple supplied photo apps on Pads are pretty lame organization tools. iPhoto doesn’t even honor the organization of an album created in the Photos app. Try this. Create a new album using the Photos app and then rearrange some of the photos. Now open iPhoto for the iPad and take a look a that same album — it is still in chronological order! So if you want to make a slide show of the photos in that album using iPhoto, you’ll need to organize it all over again
As a result….We don’t import photos from a camera to the iPad anymore. Too much brain damage.
—GetRealBro

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