If The GIMP is a little too complicated for you,
Paint.NET is also free...
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That's a nice pic., BTW, tho' pretty long.
I don't use any shrinking. The weapons-gfx is so small I just open up the original int. graphic in Paint, zoom to X2, then zoom the weapons-gfx version to X8 and try to recreate it while maintaining those dimensions and zoom levels. Try that
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