Poor resolution on small/resized photos

I'm creating a tri-fold business brochure in AppleWorks 6 using a template I downloaded from the HP website. The brochure features an equal mix of photos and text, but once I insert the photos into the brochure they look like crap (on the screen and when printed...even on EXPENSIVE brochure paper). I'm resizing the photos from their original gigantical iPhoto size to apx 250X150 and exporting the photos into the "Pictures" folder in my Finder. When opened from Finder/Pictures in "Preview" the small photos look fine - - like mini versions of the originals, which is what I want. Once inserted into the brochure, the pix look blurry and pixelated, especially if I resize them at all in within the Frames window. Even if I don't touch/resize them in Frames, they still look blurry and pixelated. Is there any way to keep the magnificent clarity of the original photos only in a mini version??!?! This brochure is for my new business so it's important that it looks professional.
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   2 GHz PowerPC

Hi tealfrank,
I think the problem is you are undersizing your images, from your description. I was wondering why you are changing the size of the orginal? Can not the brochure software handle the orginal sizes and auto size to fit into brochure when you put it together?
I would personally experiment and print only your resized images, see how they look... if they are acceptable then it must be the software you are using to build brochure or how you are further resizing once you get the images in the brochure...
Rick
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