flash (macromedia): Hi, looking for some help...

I have a set of thumbnails inside a .swf website. I have properly worked out
actionscript to pop open the thumbs to see larger images. The thumbs represent
a flash games menu.

What I want to happen when you click on a thumb is for a large rectangular
image to appear, split into four quadrants. The quadrants would be three
screenshots of the game (in the top left, bottom left and top right quadrants),
plus one quadrant for text information (in the bottom right).

In order to achieve this, I have to:
1) Save three screenshots of the game
2) Reduce the screenshots to fit into the quadrants
3) Type in the text
4) Save all this as another image
5) Import that image into my .swf website as a movie clip

I'm trying this using jpegs and gifs, and I am losing quality. The final 4
quadrant image is fuzzy. What do you experts think my best chance of getting
the sharpest looking images is? The flash games are mostly all cartoons, only a
few have photos.

Thanks for the help.

You'll have to use Fireworks or Photoshop to create the new images and then
optiomize them. Save them as jpegs and then import them into a swf.

The trick is to optimize them ion which gives you the best quality at the
lowest file size. Flash isn't an image creation package -- Fireworks,
Photoshop, etc are