Camera Raw shrinks my 23MB cr2 file to a 7MB jpg...

I am trying a demo version of Photoshop CS5 and I like it so far. I am mainly using Bridge to edit my .cr2 photos and convert them to .jpg files. I am noticing that my .cr2 files start out around 23mb (I have a Canon 7D) and after tweaking color, sharpness, etc - not cropping - the files saves as a 6-8mb .jpg file. When I Save Image, I have Quality cranked up to Maximum (10). Am I missing something? Does this program really compress my file 60%? Any advice on how to save a larger jpg would be appreciated...

Why TIFF and not .PSD, Jeff?
If you want to save a compressed edited file as a future master from which to derive other work, consider saving as a Photoshop native format .PSD file at 16 bits/channel color depth. The .PSD format has lossless compression, and certainly a lot of apps know how to open .PSD files.
You really proabably don't want to save a "developed" copy as a JPEG for use as input for further editing.
I have to ask, why save as another format at all? Camera Raw will open your file again with the same parameters as last time (it remembers them individually for each image). Why not just start afresh from your .CR2 file when you want to do further work? That's what I do.
-Noel

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