Mountain Lion OSX & How To Transfer iPhotos to Screensaver

I found this site
http://gigaom.com/apple/10-hidden-things-you-can-do-on-your-mac/
and in it it tells you (prettywell) how to use iphotos as screensavers.
What I did was to >system preferences>Desktop & Screen Saver>Screen Saver>Slideshows on the left and selected one.
Now the "Source box appeared under the picture on the right and I could go and get a photo.
Hopes this helps as I noted many people are ticked off at not being able to use their photos as Screen Savers
with Mountain Lion.

Thanks for letting everyone know about this!  This is actually something I'd like to do so I can use a photo stream as a screensaver.

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