Space. Moving from iPhoto to photo stream...

I am trying to free up room on my iPhone on my iMac. I am creating new photo streams, for example "January 2014-June 2014" and moving all iPhoto pictures to the new stream. My plan is to then delete them off iPhoto, freeing up space. Is this a good solution?? Will those photos remain in my new iCloud photo stream I have created until I delete them off?? I'm able to view them on my iMac and my iPhone under photo streams, I am just nervous to delete from my iPhoto until I have confirmation that this plan is good and will work!!

FYI...New changes are coming.
Apple retires Aperture and iPhoto, to be replaced with Photos for OS X
“With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere..."

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OT

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any help would be much appreciated thank you

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OT

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I have already purchased and download Aperture.
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Have you seen this support article. Moving from iPhoto to Aperture - How to move http://www.apple.com/aperture/iphoto-to-aperture/how.html
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What i would like to achieve is just to move all my iPhoto Library to Aperture Library. I wont use iPhoto anymore.
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I im saving to buy a NAS that will solve my space problems in the near future.
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and I am trying to organize photos so there aren't duplicates and triples. I have photos in events, last import, photos and albums....I feel like they are all taking up space.
Sarah,
Only the photos you are seeing in the events and the Photo Stream will take up space. iPhoto stores each photo only one. After you import it, it will be assigned to one event.
Then you can use it in many albums and projects. Using the photo this way will only reference the one single copy of the photo in the event. The albums don't store the photos and do not require additional space. If you delete a photo from an event, it will be removed from all albums that have been using the this photos.
What you are seing are not actually duplicate photos but different ways to access the same photos.
The "Last event" is the same event as the last one you imported. It is there for a quick access to your recently imported photos. Photos is a quick access to all photos in your library as an endless stream of photos. These are also no duplicates.
So if you want to save space and delete photos, do that by browsing your events. Deleting a photo from an event will delete the original image file and remove the photo from all albums, books, and other products. You have only duplicate photos, if you are seing the same photo twice in an event.
Even more bizarre; I imported photos from my 4S, and only a fraction of them transferred over.
That is a different problem, but it may be related to to fact that you need to free space.
If you get a warning, that the system needs space, don't do anything but update the backup of your mac and move files to an external disk to free space.
It is not save to keep working, when the system is running out of space.
How much free space do you have? Anything below 15GB free space is really critical.
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It sounds like you have photos in your Photo Stream that you would like to download. The photos are not actually stored on your Apple TV, it sounds like they are being displayed from your Photo Stream. Please read over the attached article for information on your Photo Stream and how to download these photos.
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