Expanding files sizes

Hi everyone. I'm fairly new to Aperture. I notice that when i export files they seem to grow in size. In teh inspector in Aperture, the file size says 8.7mb. when i export it as a .tiff it come out as 31mb.
Excuse my ignorance but why is this happening?
Many Thanx
Mark

Hi and thanx for your help.
I need to do two things with the images:
1) produce slideshows of the various albums onto a dvd
2) produce a DVD of full res images that people can take to their local lab and get printed.
I'm guessing that a high res jpeg will be ok for (2). I was then going to import them into iPhoto to save as a slideshow with image numbers then to iDVD.
I'm just confused about why the image after Aperture is over 3 times the size? Sure some space for layers etc i understand but does it really add over 300% to the file size?
As for the original camera, it was actually an EOS1Ds, 11Megapixels apparently! i think i left out the 's' before.
I believe that they were taken into Photoshop, saved as 8 Bit tiff's then given to me on the dvd. Most of the images are around 8Mb when seen in Aperture or anywhere else but still when exported they balloon to over 30Mb.
Thanx
Powerbook G4 1.5Ghz, 1Gb Ram, Superdrive Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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