Choose a Photo as Your Desktop Background

Select one of your photos to use as a Desktop image. It's a great way to personalize the appearance of your Mac. Any photo you choose will fill the Desktop space.

1.	Select one photo in any album or from the Library.
2.	Click the "Desktop" icon in the Organize toolbar. The photo instantly appears on your Desktop.

Send Photos to iDVD

If you have a SuperDrive in your Mac (a drive that can read and write DVD s), you can send a selection of photos to the i DVD application to make a DVD slideshow, which you can then burn to a DVD . Because DVD s can hold so much data (4.3 gigabytes), you can put lots of slideshows in one DVD project. To learn more about i DVD , see Chapter 4.

To send photos to iDVD

1.	Open i DVD , then select a "Theme" from the i DVD Customize drawer (see Chapter 4 for detailed i DVD instructions).
2.	Go back to iPhoto. From the "Source" pane, select an album, a collection of photos from an album, or a slideshow that you created.
3.	From the Share menu, choose "Send to i DVD ."
4.	The photos are transferred to i DVD, which automatically creates a menu with a title and a menu button that links to a slideshow of your photos. If you transferred an iPhoto slideshow or an album, the i DVD slideshow button picks up the name from iPhoto. You can customize the i DVD menu in all sorts of ways, change the design theme, the font style, the music, the slide duration, and more (see Chapter 4).
5.	Click the i DVD slideshow button to preview your slideshow in i DVD.
6.	Click the "Burn" button in the lower-right corner of the i DVD window to burn the slideshow to a DVD . Or save the project so you can work on it later when you have more content to add (more slideshows from iPhoto or movies from iMovie).

Burn a CD or DVD-R of Selected Photos

To burn your photo collections onto a CD or DVD , your computer must have an Apple-supported CD or DVD drive. If your computer has a SuperDrive, it can burn CD s or DVD s. A DVD-R disc holds more than a CD approximately 4.3 gigabytes of data, compared to less than 1 gigabyte for a CD .

Use iPhoto to burn a disc that you use as a backup or that you plan to use with iPhoto. If you want to burn a disc that you can share with others without iPhoto, don't use iPhotouse the Finder.

First use iPhoto to export the photos to a folder, then burn the folder to a disc using the disc burning feature of Mac OS X.

Or drag a group of photos or a film roll icon from the iPhoto Preview pane to the Desktop (or anywhere on your hard disk). Then burn the album to a disc using Mac OS X's disc burning feature.

To burn photos onto a disc

1.	Select a collection of photos to burn to a disc (one or more albums, individually selected photos, or the entire Library).
2.	From the Share menu choose "Burn Disc."
3.	A sheet drops down (shown below) to request that you insert a blank disc. Depending on the kind of drive in your computer, the disc can be a CD-R ( CD recordable), a CD-RW ( CD rewritable), or a DVD-R ( DVD recordable). Insert a blank disc and click OK .
4.	A Burn toolbar appears above the Organize toolbar. Type a name for the disc in the " Name " field.
5.	Click the "Burn" button (circled below).
6.	In the "Burn Disc" window that opens (shown on the right), choose an action for "After Burning," then click the "Burn" button.
7.	The disc ejects when the burning is finished.