How To Burn Photos OUTSIDE of iPhoto?

Im tired of iPhoto, the whole program is just a mess. Every time i burn a disc from there it puts that whole mess of a puzzel of folders just to get to the photos. How do you burn discs outside of iphoto? I tried the burn folder, but it did nothing. every time i hit the burn button it told me to insert a disc (which I had already done, brand new, enough space, everything was fine about the disc) Why does apple make it so complicated to do such a normal task, almost want to go back to my PC. Same thing goes for DVDs, I cant burn a DVD for the life of me. Ive read the instructions on their support page, and follow them pecicly, and nothing. always just spaces out on me.

Hi adamphoto,
This is what you have been doing....
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=165523
this is what you want to do...
Creating a CD or DVD to be viewed in Windows or by a photo processing company
Can you explain again the exact steps you are going through to burn a CD/DVD.
What do you want to burn on the DVD?
this is what i am doing right now...
Create a burn folder. It should be listed in the left column of the finder window.
Drag the files/folders you want to burn on top of the burn folder in the left hand column.
Highlight the burn folder in the left hand column.
In the window on the right will be the folders/files you dragged into the burn folder. there will also be a burn button in that window.
Click the burn button.
You will be asked to insert a disc.
Insert a disc.
the little window will go away and another window will pop up and you will be asked to type in a name for the disc.
Type in a name.
Follow instructions from there and the burning will start

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