Screen Shot Resolution

I took screen shots of several emails, imported the screen shots into a slide show in iPhoto, then exported the slide show to iDVD.
When viewing the DVD on TV, you can barely read the emails.
How can I improve the screen shot resolutions? Should I import the screen shot into PhotoShop and adust resolution to 720 x 540 for NTSC?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks for the response.
I increased the size of the text in the e-mails, then resized the emails to 640x480 and took a screen shot, which I converted in PhotoShop from TIF to JPG. I then re-imported the emails into iPhoto and exported the slide show to iDVD.
When I play the DVD on my TV, I can read the text fine, but I neglected to leave space around the e-mail, so some of the sides are cut off on the TV screen.

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