Clipping means to isolate and cut out an object from its unwanted background. Digital image editing uses masks and clipping paths for this purpose. 

Clipping is the overall term for several clipping techniques in digital image editing, for instance to remove unwanted areas and objects of an image or to isolate objects from its background (cropping).

Whenever fur or other tricky elements of an image shall be clipped, it makes sense to use the technique of soft-masking. Soft-masking makes it possible to capture the contours of detailed and challenging objects precisely, so they can be cut out and transferred into other contexts without losing their richness of detail.

Clipping means to isolate an object from its background in order to remove the background or to transfer the object into another picture.

Clipping means to isolate an object from its background in order to remove or replace the background or to transfer the object into another picture.

Clipping means to isolate and cut out an object from its unwanted background.

Clipping Paths are a common tool for clipping, that means isolating and releasing objects from its background.