How to Burn an Event on an iMac

You can burn photos from an event with iPhoto on your iMac.

When you import photos from a digital camera or a cellphone into iPhoto on your iMac, the images are categorized into "Events" corresponding to the date they were taken. You might want to burn an event onto a CD to back up the pictures taken on that date. Apple installs the free iPhoto application on every recent iMac. You use iPhoto to manage your photos, sort them into albums and make slideshows. You can easily burn an event on your iMac.

Things You'll Need

• Blank CD or DVD

Instructions

1. Click "iPhoto" on the Dock of your iMac to launch Apple's native application for managing photos.

2. Click "Events" under"Library in the left pane of the iPhoto window. A list of your events appears.

3. Click the name of an event to select it.

4. Click "Share" from the iPhoto menu.

5. Click "Burn." A dialog box appears, telling you to insert a blank CD or DVD. A CD holds about 650 megabytes and a DVD holds about 4.4 gigabytes. The amount of space required to burn your selected event appears in the bottom, left corner of the iPhoto window under Information.

6. Insert a blank disc into the iMac's optical drive and then click "OK."

7. Click the "Burn" button at the bottom right of the iPhoto window. A message appears, indicating how many photos you are burning. Click "Burn" to burn the disc.

References

• Apple: iPhoto '11
• Apple: iPhoto '11: View and Organize Photos by Event
• Apple: iPhoto 11 Alert Message Appears When Burning a Disc With Selected Photos From an Event

Resources

• Apple: Support - iPhoto