Iphoto is using up all my storage and increasing in size.

I uploaded about 8 Gb of photos to my macbook pro. Right after I started doing some work, came back and it now says that i have 18 Gb's of photos uploaded to my mac? Why do the photos keep increasing in size. iPhoto is using so much storage.

Where in iPhoto is this 18gb referred to?
What the iPhoto Window reports is the nominal size of the resulting folder if you exported everything from iPhoto at the "Current" setting.
The iPhoto Library in the Finder contains your original photos, thumbnails, previews, cache, database and metadata files. it is always larger than reported by the iPhoto Window.
If disk space is an issue then you can put the Library on an external disk:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

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