Icons not in good picture quality

I'm trying to set high resolution images (800x600) as icons for some of my folders. however, when i zoom in the icon size they are not in good quality and the finesse is not there as in the original picture. this didn't use to be the case before in leopard. i'm using copy-paste to set them as icon in the 'get-info' window.
any suggestions?
Neerav

The maximum resolution for icons in OS X is 512x512. For Windows 7, it's 256x256, and in WinXP it's 128x128. All three require icons to have a 1:1 aspect ratio.
OS X and Windows 7 will automatically down-sample higher-resolution icons, and, if not 1:1, pad them.

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