Why are my pictures being saved so large?!?!

I'm really hoping someone on here can help!  I've never had this problem before until the recently.  I open up a picture that I've taken, which is 3 MB, and do just a bit of editing.  I'll crop, adjust the curves, and that's it.  When I go to save it, it saves as a 12-14 MB picture.  Anyone know why this would be happening?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Alison

When you are using the crop tool, are you resampling (i.e., are there any numbers in the fields at the top of the Photoshop window)?  If so, you could be causing the images to be upsampled to a higher pixel count.
I'd also like to mention that JPEG compression isn't simple; it's not just "pick a number and that defines the size".  In short, the JPEG quality level provided by the camera doesn't correspond to any particular Photoshop setting.  Level 12 in Photoshop will definitely save very large files.  Usually level 10 or 11 is good enough for delivered images, but if you're concerned with quality loss (e.g., for subsequent editing) you may have to face the fact that you'll need to save them as large files.  Personally, unless these output JPEGs are your final product, I'd probably save them as .psd files, which incurs no loss but does provide some compression.
Lastly, terabyte disks are ridiculously cheap.  In all seriousness you should not be balancing quality of your results against storage size.  A top-of-the-line 2 TB Western Digital RE4 hard drive is $230 last I looked.  A 1 TB RE3 drive is only a little over a hundred bucks!  I'm quoting high reliability drive prices because I would not advise buying anything less.  Your data is too valuable to worry over a few tens of dollars.
What is the pixel count of your input files and output files?
-Noel

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