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 CDs or DVDs. A DVD-R disc holds more than a CDapproximately 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.

This process does not allow multiple burning sessions. After you burn a disc, the disc is "closed" and you can't burn additional data to it.