Meaghan

Printing?  Perhaps sharpening.  I did the sharpening too.

Thanks for the advice.  On my way home now and got to feed a child but will read the jpeg link when all is quiet.

Yes the sizes are similar.  My larger files are around 3447x4700

Dimensions are 4206x3054.

I am a bit unclear about imposing a resolution.  I learned the 11x15 from your course but I haven't looked at it for a while.  I thought 300dpi was necessary for printing.

7 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

What are the pixel dimensions of the files?

4206x3054

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.