A trick you might like : if you do all your work of colouring with the original size, you have a better control over what you are doing.
Only scale down when you have done all your stuff, it will look much nicer

[shameless plus alert] Check out the method I described in another thread, you might find it very useful (though if you want clean edges you will have to do some extra work)
youpla :-P
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