Photos loose their quality when I make a movie

I'm new to iMovies and I'm creating a movie from photos of a recent event. The photos my wife took are great looking and the size of each photo is 1.7mb. When I drag a photo into the time line viewer, it drags a small size version of the photo (117 kb) and looses so much quality. I thought this was just for the development portion and it would still be linked to the original photo, but when I export the photo to Quicktime or share it to iDVD, the quality is terrible.
Any enlightenment as to what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Reflections,
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