Well if you have some skills (art, writing, or coding), you can come with me huhuhu xP. Our team is way too small, but we do have the bare minimum there.
@Chinzilla:
Lol, unfortunately I know nothing about coding. I have photoshop on my school computer but unfortunately I need to give that back before summer. I still need to learn a little more about pixelling too. xP Otherwise i've been fooling around a bit. c:
Oooh...mm...I don't think Gimp has as much problems with it as Photoshop. Have you tried starting at 3-4 times the size of the actual item, doing your work there, and then shrinking it down?
Maybe try playing with the image resize settings. Other than that, you can probably try to open it up in that online Photoshop program and try to shrink it down from there.