For example in the case of one photo, the original file is 4288 x 2848, 1 MB, and once it was edited in Lightroom it became 2048 x 4062, 469 KB. I right clicked to save it, seeing no other way to do so, and the saved file is now 320 x 228, 28.8 KB. This is the trial version of Lightroom. I saw nothing about resizing, nor did I see anything about exporting.
Can you answer my earlier question, is this something you downloaded to your computer and installed, and then you double-click on the icon in order to use it? Or is it something you access via a web browser?
This is all part of Lightroom 101. It probably won't make much sense to you. Lightroom does not change your master files. It doesn't change their size. It doesn't change anything about the file. Lightroom always leaves you are master files in the same condition they were in when they were imported. If you have smaller files then you must have exported copies and the size of the export copy is in part determined by the settings in the export dialog. So the question you are asking seems to be indicating that you don't fully understand how Lightroom works because you can't just save your work in Lightroom.
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