Importing Pictures Without Loosing Quality

I have an image that is pretty high resolution and looks fine in Photoshop CS5. However, whenever I try to paste it into Flash CS5, it looses quality and looks terrible. If I try to save it as another image format first and then import it into Flash, the color changes. Can someone help me figure out how to stop this from happening? The original image is a .tif, so there are only a limited number of formats that I can convert it to using Photoshop. Thank you.

To resize an image in PS, resize before you save and do not use "Save for Web" to resize unless you want to lower the quality.
From the main menu choose "Image" then "Image Size". Set your desired pixel dimensions and resolution in the popup dialog box. Choose "Constrain Proportions" and "Resample" using Bicubic.
Typical screen resolution is 72 pixels per inch, while print resolution is 300+ pixels per inch. So if you save a 1000 x 500 px image and display it on a monitor, it will display at approx 13.9 x 6.9 inches but if you print that exact same image it will print out at approx 3.3 x 1.7 in.
So resize the image BEFORE you save, then just save as usual, giving the file a different name than the original (so you always have a HI-Res version).
Best of luck!
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