Viewing iphoto on time machine

Hi all,
I am trying to figure out how I can view my iphoto from a previous backup I made on timemachine. I backed it up onto an external hardrive, so I know it is all there. But when I click the date and click iphoto, it says that it cannot open iphoto because there isn't enough free space. I also tried pressing command when opening iphoto to try and open another iphoto, but it led me to the pictures I currently have on my computer. Help?!?!?!

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You can have an iPhoto library on an external drive and use it from different machines
and you can have a Time Machine backup
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