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Posted By: davidcycleback

Ordinarily, shrinking an image won't make the image worse (or at least much worse). As mentioned, the big pic may have been bad, and there's nothing you can do about that. I've used a variety of image programs, most that came with computer, and they all did a credible job manipulating images. So it's not the case that there's one magical photo editor and the rest are worthless.

Two possibilities are you're changing the width/height proportion when shrinking (image will look goofy), or that you are saving the image to have too few pixels (saving at 10% instead of 100%).