Resulting Blurry Photo

I am creating a 4 by 6 business card and I am trying to put a photo in the upper right corner. The original photo is crisp and in high resolution, but after cropping and down-sizing it and dragging it into my project, it loses its resoultion. Can someone help me with this?

Further to above, after you have resized the image and saved it, go to File menu>New>blank file, enter width & height (4x6"), and resolution 300 px/in. ok it. Then, drag, or copy/paste, the picture to the blank file in the work area. The point is that we want the resolution of the canvas and the resolution of the picture to be the same.
If there is severe distortion of the picture after resizing, you may be well served to use the crop tool.
Here the drill is the same: enter width, height, resolution and crop it to specification.
The final step should be gentle sharpening so that it does not look fake.
We look forward to your progress.

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Thanks for your reply,
I did a rebuild of the library, but the error remained.
To answer the issues you have with my post:
1/ My post is not about books, but the original posting dug deeper and got to the issue of editing photos in iPhoto and having the same problems as I experienced and described. Exporting a photo in a book or in an email, what ever export/production mode is, it came down to a problem of photo Edit in iPhoto.
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