Making & Burning Slideshow using 'slideshow' at bottom of iPhoto Library?

Hello. I would appreciate if someone can help me from beginning to finished product of making a slideshow using for example the Snapshot effect and music from iTunes.
I will go over in point form to the point where I am unable to proceed any further:
1--I select pictures in iPhoto.
2--I click on 'slideshow' at the bottom of the iPhoto page.
3--I click on 'themes' and select 'snapshots'.
4--I click on the iTunes icon in slideshow and choose music.
This is as far as I have been able to go as I dont see anything that
will allow me to transfer this to DVD.
I am making a 100th birthday slideshow and hope someone can assist me on this. Thanks.

Go to the Share menu at the top and select the iDVD option. When you've completed the iDVD project save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option.
This will separate the encoding process from the burning process. Mount the disk image and play it with DVD Player. If it plays OK the encoding was good. Now burn to disk with Disk Utility at the slowest speed possible to get the best quality burn.
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