Photo management - duplicates

I do not take many pictures, but even my pictures folder is around 20GB.
I think one problem is that photos are duplicated if they are modified. Is there a way to remove the original photos and only keep the modified one?
This should be a build in option to simply ask to keep the original photo or not.

I said:
Obviously not because that's not what iPhoto does. Similarly, directly editing shots is not what iPhoto does or is for. Simply, if that's what you want you need an editor and a photo viewer, like Bridge and Photoshop, or Graphic Converter.
You said:
That's simply incorrect. iPhoto does not render the changes on the spot, it saves copies of the modified photo, hence my storage complaint with large libraries. Also, you keep referring to Digital Asset Management. The "management" of photos can include discarding the original and keeping the modified version only.
I think you need to re-read what I wrote:
Similarly, directly editing shots is not what iPhoto does or is for.
And you then go on to say exactly the same thing:
iPhoto does not render the changes on the spot, it saves copies of the modified photo,
As for this:
Also, you keep referring to Digital Asset Management. The "management" of photos can include discarding the original and keeping the modified version only.
Yes, the "management" of Photos can include that option, but not with a Asset Manager - a different thing, and therein seems to be the point you're failing to grasp. Asset Management is the ability to refer back on the chain of actions - to original or earlier versions.
Regards
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