Compressing a folder of photos

Let iPhoto compress the photos before you export them from iPhoto.

Collect them in an iPhoto album, then use "File > Export" and select a small file size.

Then use File/compress to compress the exported folder and mail it.

You could also directly mail smaller versions of your images and using the command "Share > email" that will scale the photos to a smaller size, sitable for mailing. But the photos will be send as individual images, not as a zipped archive.

Regards

Léonie

You can not - it is already very compressed so there is not much more compression you can do except to lower quality - when you export the photos you have several "size" options including size adn JPEG quality that you can use to make smaller but lower quality photos

LN

AMarieB wrote:

If you don't do it in iPhoto, you can also use Photoshop to batch compress:

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-batch-resize-in-photoshop/

No - it is not iPhoto or any other appliation - it is that

You can not - it is already very compressed so there is not much more compression you can do except to lower quality - when you export the photos you have several "size" options including size adn JPEG quality that you can use to make smaller but lower quality photos

You can not do significant compression on an compress format like JPEG - all you can do is use lower quality - as stated several times in this thread

LN

AMarieB wrote:

I actually was just able to do it in Preview -- I'm on a work macbook pro with no Photoshop or iPhoto. I selected all my photos in Preview, went to Tools, Adjust Size and made them all smaller.

That is NOT compressing - it is reducing quality as noted in the answers above

You simply can not significantly compress a JPEG with reducing quality - the OP wanted information on compressing not on reducing quality

LN

And that was covered by both Léonie's and my answers - using iPhoto - no need for Preview or PhotoShop simply exporting form iPhoto using reduces quality settings

Again

You can not - it is already very compressed so there is not much more compression you can do except to lower quality - when you export the photos you have several "size" options including size and JPEG quality that you can use to make smaller but lower quality photos

Simple and staring forward without using anything but iPhoto

LN

I thought it'd be helpful to have options. Because, for instance, in my case I found this page searching for an answer, but I don't have iPhoto on my computer, so I had to use Preview. I also have had this issue before and Photoshop was handy, so for anyone searching for answers to this problem, why not have multiple options?

What ever - this forum is for (and only for) using iPhoto on the Mac

again the answer is to the OP's specific question and is only in the context of the forum - using iPhoto for the Mac

There are a million ways to do everything but within the context of the forum and the question the question was fully answered - extraneous information about different questions doe not add clarity - in fact it makes the answers much harder for future readers and is confusing

If you do not use iPhoto (a perfectly valid choice) then you should not be contributing to this forum as you know nothing about the proper use of the only program this forum is concerned with

Have a nice day

LN

If you don't do it in iPhoto, you can also use Photoshop to batch compress:

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-batch-resize-in-photoshop/

I actually was just able to do it in Preview -- I'm on a work macbook pro with no Photoshop or iPhoto. I selected all my photos in Preview, went to Tools, Adjust Size and made them all smaller.

Oh, I'm sorry - I know that. I just thought since he wanted to make the file size smaller, this was a way to do that. If he wants to do that without losing quality, that's another story.