CS5. When I flatten the layers of an images the size went from 100MB to 50MB. Why?

I use CS5. When I made some adjustment (layers) the size was 100MBs. This was a photo of a painting. When I flattened the image the size went to 50MBs. Why? How canI keep the original size?

Because you no longer have more the one layer all you layers have been merged into a background layer without any layer mask.

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