Shrinking

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Shrinking is mostly used when images don't fit in a given viewport. For this they are scaled down horizontally and vertically, to fit in the viewport. There are many ways of doing this; the easiest way is taking the average of the pixels you are combining and keep that as the color of the combined pixel.