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Hi Poppi. iMovie 11 was developed to work with iPhoto, so will not link to Photos. My iMovie 11 does not show Photos as being a source of photographs, only Photo Booth.It is iMovie 11 (v 9.0.4) and there don't appear to be any updates.
That is an instruction for the latest version of iMovie, NOT for iMovie 11. As I'm sure you know, the photos button is on the right hand side of the divider, next to the Music button in iMovie 11.You can access your Photos library from within iMovie:
In the left-hand sidebar of the iMovie window, select Photos Library.
Click the pop-up menu at the top of the image browser to choose a content category—My Albums, Albums, Years, Collections, Moments, or Places.
When you find the photo you’d like to use, drag it into the Timeline.
You could drag you photographs out of Photos onto the Desktop, and then drag them to your Project Timeline. However, there is a bug with iMovie 11 and El Capitan where photographs inserted into iMovie 11 Projects show up as a black screen.
However, the following fix may work. With your photo on the Desktop, Right/Ctrl click on it and select Open With and choose MPEGStreamclip(if you have it. If you don't, you can download it from here: http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html).
With the photo in MPEGStreamclip, go File Menu>Export to MPEG-4. This will give you an mp4 "movie" file which you can then import into iMovie 11 and it should then show in the Project. I don't have El Capitan so I can't confirm that it works, but in theory it should.