Exported Picture Quality

[T40T]

I've had this problem with at least 2 versions of Word:
XP and now 2003.

I have a lot of pictures that I pasted in Word before I
knew much of anything at all about photo or image editing
software etc.

When I try to copy pictures from Word documents into any
graphics program, the quality of the image is horrendous.

Tons of pixels visible.

Colors all blurred and simplifide

Skin that is pure with slight gradations of shading
becomes nothing but brown, orange, red,yellow, and peach
blotches all on the same body.

It makes any picture look like a really terrible
Warholian silksreen image with ugly colors.

This happens whatever program I try to import into.

Microsoft Paint, Microsoft Photo Editor, Ulead
PhotoImpact.

Any idea of how to fix this?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Saving the document as Web page, Word export the pictures
as gif/jpg files.