During my last editing process (a newborn shoot) my JPEG images suddenly began saving as much smaller files than usual, including the image below. I shoot in raw and I haven't touched anything in Photoshop CC and cannot seem to find what has changed. I have found no love on other sites with quite a bit of assistance. My Jpegs normally save as a 7-9/10mb file but it has been down in the kbs. If I push the slider to maximum resolution (12) they are larger but still only 1mb. The images are cropped but not significantly. The crop ratio is 11X15 300dpi. Normally I save at 8 resolution on the slider. I will include screen shots below.
PS:I have a PC laptop running Windows 10 and Photoshop CC. It is under 2 years old, and has 1001 bytesGB of RAM. Its hard drive has 677GB free out of 3.00 TBGB. The last time I shut down was more than a week ago, because I'm an idiot. I rarely run a cleanup program.