My Exported Slide Shows look bleary

I am making music videos with Iphoto, I expert them to Quicktime format to put up on the web, but the images look bleary.
In particularly I made jpg slides with Keynote - images with text comments, saved to jpg format, through the files in to IPhoto, did a slide show and exported to Quicktime format.
I put them up on the web, the music sounds fine, but the images are so bleary it is hard to read the text of the keynote slides/jpg.
Anyone have suggestions how to make clearer slides, make a slideshow with good music and good video images?
Thanks,
JE

I fully agree and have the same problem. My .mac iWeb Site has several albums. On a PC (even with Safari) the slideshows are now useless because the images are tiny. Upgrading to iWeb 2 somehow shrunk down the slideshow. When I click on the individual pictures, they open up fine in the new iWeb 2 mode and I can even hit the download button fine to copy an image to my drive. However, hitting the slideshow button brings up tiny images! The slideshow is now all but useless for Windows users.
Hope someone can help out with this problem!
Thanks Klaus

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