[Amos]

If I resize original image it takes a lot of work to clean it up and make it look like I want it too. And many times even after a lot of work I dont get what I want and throw the image out. The best way, if you create your sprites from nothing, is too draw them in dimensions you want them to be at the end. But if you need to resize a large image, you should clean it while it is large, then make the surrounding field pure black. That makes it easier too clean it after resize.