smeagol the vile
No no, when I try and shrink it, in any program, it gets distorted. The image does not have a high enough resolution and I do NOT have the skills to fix it myself...
If you're referring to the same images you provided the link to, they've got more/better resolution than you'll ever need. Three things to consider, if you haven't already done so:
If you're shrinking images to a tiny size, they'll almost always look worse in "real" size on your monitor than they will when you print them out. If they look fuzzy and indistinct on your monitor, try "zooming" the view--if the detail is still there, it will show in the magnified version. Most printers will print that detail cleanly.
Second, when reducing your image, it's absolutely vital to maintain aspect ratio, which is a fancy way of saying you have to resize the height and width of an image by precisely the same amount. If those two are off, even by a small amount, you'll start getting pixilation that will degrade the image more every time it's manipulated in some way.
Third, if at any stage along the way you're using JPEG images, those images will degrade a bit more every time you save and reopen them, due to the compression built into the process. [If you want a good example of this, open a medium-sized JPEG image--especially one with a white backgound-- in MS Paint, then save and reopen it a couple of times. You'll start seeing that pure white backgound become more "blushy" and general detail more pixilated.] I use MS Paint extensively for working with images (since it's already on every Windows computer, and I'm, well, cheap...), and if I'm working with a JPEG image, the first thing I'll do is save it as a TIFF file instead. That way, it will look the same every time I open it instead of getting hazier and muddier each time (which will be magnified exponentially in resizing).
I'm not an artist and I'm not a computer technician--but these things work. They're more complicated to describe than they are to actually do.
Good luck!