Re-sizing photos in FW....quality loss

Hi All.
At the moment I'm messing around with the design of a new
web-page in FW.
I have a hi-res photo i want to use as part of the design.
What's annoying is that when i re-size it, quality is lost.
So, if later in the design process, i want to make it bigger again,
i've lost quality from the original.
Is there a setting in FW whereby you can tell FW to keep all
the quality so that later on you can return to the original size
without loss of quality?......or maybe there's a
work-around?.......or do i need to just get used to it?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

If you make a Symbol out of the image you can resize back and
forth to
your hearts content and not loose detail. Otherwise you will
loose
detail in Fireworks or any other graphic program when you
make the image
bigger again.
This link at Adobe will explain it for you.
http://tinyurl.com/yqkqnz
alex
Sammie8 wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> At the moment I'm messing around with the design of a
new web-page in FW.
>
> I have a hi-res photo i want to use as part of the
design.
>
> What's annoying is that when i re-size it, quality is
lost. So, if later in
> the design process, i want to make it bigger again, i've
lost quality from the
> original.
>
> Is there a setting in FW whereby you can tell FW to keep
all the quality so
> that later on you can return to the original size
without loss of
> quality?......or maybe there's a work-around?.......or
do i need to just get
> used to it?
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
>

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