Photo fuzzy after adding effect on FCE 4

Hi, i'm currently using final cut express 4 and am having some photo technical difficulties? Im using an Apple Intermediate Codec format for the current project with an HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 720p30 with a rate of (all rates). Now when I place a photo on timeline it's fine, no need to render. It looks crisp and fine. Here are the image properties:
But when I add a video effect to the photo such as Gradient colorize and then I render the photo, the photo suddenly looses it's clarity, it becomes a bit fuzzy.
Can anyone help me out so that when i add an effect and render, it still retains it's clarity?

You could try Photoshop (Elements or CS), Pixelmator or another image editing app to resize the photo.  I don't hold out a lot of hope for any significant increase in quality this way, because you will be enlarging a low res original.
Another option would be to open the image in Safari or other browser (see the More Info > Where from address) and then use Grab to capture the image on screen (instead of downloading the jpg file).
Note that Grab saves images as TIFF files.  You will need to convert the TIFF to jpg to use it in FCE.  The easiest way to do this is open the saved TIFF image in Preview, then do a Save As jpg.  You may get some better resolution this way.  But again, it's not a high quality image in the first place!

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