Is there a way to zip pictures in Aperture?

I have no problem to zip 30 or more at a time in the Finder - select the images, then ctrl-click them, and from the pop-up menu select "compress 30 items".

That should work.

Léonie

Aperture does not export zipped archives, afaik. You will have to export your album to a folder on your disk and then zip the folder.

And also, note that if your images are JPEGs or PNGs, compressing a group of them won't save much space. Even images that aren't compressed like most RAWs or TIFFs don't compress much.

True, Aye Es Oh, but sometimes it is easier to zip a set of images, if you want to mail them or upload them. Zipping images is great to prevent mailers from displaying them as inline images in the mail.

Per Leonie's suggestion, you'd zip the entire folder, not the individual images within.

But, if you must select multiple images, make sure you've switched to a list or column view. You should see that option near the top of most Finder windows. Once you've switched to a list-type view, shift-select should work to select multiple images.

You could either select one of the images in the folder, then press the key combination ⌘A to select all,

or simply select the folder and then compress the folder as described above.

Will I be able to send the zipped files in one email?

That will depend on the size of the compressed file - see Aye Es Oh's post. Zipping images does not compress them much. Look at the size of the zipped files; if it is much larger than 3 MB the recipient of the mail will not be happy.

If you want to compress the images to share them by mail from Aperture, you could use Aperture's Mail preferences in the "Export" panel to set the size of the mailed images to small. Then you should be able to mail 20 images at once.

Regards

Léonie