Copying iphoto album to disc

How do I copy an iphoto album that I have put in a special sequence so I can run a slideshow?  I want to save the album to a disc:  it's my granddaughters' second birthday so it's important to me

Here's one (of several) way(s) to do what you want:
Make an Album of the photos, then drag the pics into your preferred order.
Then Photos Menu: Batch Change -> Set Title to Text "John's Birthday", for instance, and tick the box to append a number to each Photo. Now your photos are titled 'John's Birthday 001, John's Birthday 002 ... etc'
Then File -> Export and in the Export dialogue set the Filename to "Use Title"
Sort on Filename in the FInder and you end up with a folder full of images in the same order as the Album in iPhoto.
Burn that folder to disk with the Finder
Regards
TD

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