Exporting an album to desktop and screen saver

I have a MacBook Pro running on 10.10.2 and iPhoto 9.6.1.  I would like to use my own albums for desktop and screen saver.  Was not able to find instructions listing the steps to follow to move albums.  Can you help?

You first have to select a theme (like Origami or Reflections) in the sidebar of the System Preferences >  Desktoo&Screensaver preferences panel.
Then set the source for the photos to be used to one of your iPhoto events from the "Source" pop-up.  It may take some time for your iPhoto Library to show in this menu, when you click Photo Library:  Or pick directly one of the "Recent iPhoto Events". Just make sure, the event you want is the last one you viewed in iPhoto.

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