Mosaic screensaver: Does it work through Finder?

Only just discovered the Mosaic feature. Tried setting the screensaver to that option, with my Pictures folder selected. It lets me make that selection, but then gives me a message saying my library must have 100 items. (Pictures folder has 126 items).
So question: Is it designed to work with images contained in Finder folders, or strictly for iPhoto libraries? (If the latter, it would be sensible if that was made clear in the prefpane, which it's not.)
Thanks.

it mostly works with iphoto. it won't work if you have less than 100 pictures in your iphoto library. if you try to run it on a folder of pictures in finder it will basically combine them with the iphoto library as follows. it will start on a picture in this folder in finder and do a mosaic using only images from iphoto ending on another picture from this folder and so on. that's how it works for me at any rate.

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