A lot of people didn’t know about this feature in OS X.
Here’s the how to:

  1. control + click on the file (files or folder: it will make a single archive with all the files inside)
  2. select “Create Archive of…”
  3. a .zip archive will be created in the same folder than the selected file(s)’s

Archive Creation

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