How to select certain photos/events to show up on desktop?

I would like to select certain event folders from IPhoto to show up on my desktop screen saver. Is there a way to do that? My problem, is that certain photo's show up that I may have even deleted? Annoying. At times, I may do some editing and IMovie projects for friends and their photo's may show up on my screen saver. Want this to be more personal, pertaining to my family. How do I accomplish this? Please, detail the procedure on doing the process if it can be done. Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We're users here and don't speak for "Apple Inc."
Here's how I do it:
In iPhoto, I edit the images as necessary. Then I flag (Command + .) those images I want to use.
They are automatically gathered into the 'Flagged' group under Recent within iPhoto.
By flagging, I'm not limited to just selecting photos from a single event.
When I've flagged all the images, (Command + .) I select the Flagged group and simply export the flagged photos I want to use into a Folder named 'Screen Saver Photos' on my desktop. (Original name, eh?) Then link to it from System Preferences, Screen Saver, Source:
On a 500GB or 1TB drive, duplicating even a few hundred 5MB .jpg photos for this purpose isn't going to use much of the available space. When I'm ready for a new look, I delete the files in 'Screen Saver Photos' folder and start over once again.

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