Noob - if I delete a photo from iPhoto does it delete from original location?

[RandomTom]

Bit of a long thread title but I thought I'd get straight to the point. Had my macbook since Wednesday and loving it, posting from a pc at the moment though lol but my question is all I ask.

I loaded up iPhoto '08 and it retrieves all the msn emoticons and things like that in an album called 'Resources' and obviously I don't want them on my iPhoto and I don't really just want to hide them so is emptying them from the iPhoto trash going to keep them on the mac or delete them forever?

ta. (sorry for the noob overload.)

 

[RandomTom]

Okay so question number 2 then, how can I access all the iPhoto photos?

I transferred a folder from my PC called Photographs and put that in 'pictures' then put them all in iPhoto so that means effectively I now have 2 copies of each? Using spotlight I searched for a folder name of one of the photo sets and there were 4 results:

1 with my original photos
1 with less photos (as I deleted some, so this is where iPhoto holds them)
1 with thumbnails of videos etc.
1 with edited photos.

Where are they stored? and can I delete my original photos folder now? I'd like to be able to just go in the folder occasionally for editing purposes etc and not use iPhoto...

 

[RandomTom]

The iPhoto library is in your Pictures folder called...iPhoto Library

I gathered that, but the show file is the thing I was after.

Usually by myself I like to have an overall folder with photos in and then an edits folder but I think I'll keep the edits separate.