Too many photos slowing my mac- what do i do?

i have backed to an external harddrive but when i access this it just lists 1000's of photos in jpeg format- not very user friendly. Also before i cloud came along i already had 100's of pictures in my iphoto library. What do I do? I need to delete some to create space but I am worried that the back up isn't correct. Is buying icloud space enough? do you need to back up i cloud? How do I transfer all my non - photo stream pics to i cloud. Very confused. thanks

That's not backing up. A back up is a copy of the data on another disk made to be used in the event of a problem with the main library. So, if you have a disk failure, for instance, your data is safe.
You always always need an up-to-date back up of all your important data.
What you're doing there is archiving. Taking some data and putting into "long-term-storage" as it were.
Here's one way to do that with iPhoto:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
Now you have a full copy of the Library on the External and a smaller subset on the Internal
Some Notes:
As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
You can choose which Library to open: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
You can keep the Library on the external updated with new imports using iPhoto Library Manager
Note: You need to back up of the Library on your internal disk and the archived material as well.

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