Stamp Tool No Longer Shows Results + Masking Should Be Photographer-Friendly, Not Mechanica

Here are a few issues and suggestions:

1. The Stamp tool worked fine in the previous few versions, but now it’s completely unusable. After releasing the mouse, it basically doesn’t show what I’ve stamped at all — I have to click on the original layer to see it. Before, the results were visible immediately. What kind of interaction logic is this? Every update just makes it worse. Please fix this bug as soon as possible.

2. Also, I still don’t understand the point of your current mask feature at all. As a photographer, these weird functions are basically useless to me. Could you please add some actually practical and useful tools? To be honest, with your masking — as someone who works in pre-production and on-set shooting — anything I can see, I can usually solve myself right there. What I really need help with are the relationships between background and foreground, people and props, special details in clothing, and fine details on the subject. Approaching the mask from this kind of practical perspective would be far better than those mechanical “add/merge/delete” functions. We’re in the AI era now, yet you’re still using such rigid, dogmatic methods to build features that aren’t even better than Photoshop’s. Can you make the masking simpler and more intuitive? Your Portrait mode is a good example — even though I don’t use it, at least I clearly know what I want to adjust: eyes, hair, skin, etc. Please optimize the mask function with this kind of user-friendly thinking in mind.

3. I’ve been using C1 for over ten years. I hope you stay true to your vision, but don’t slack off or rest on your laurels. Keep your optimizations and updates in step with the times, make them easy for users to understand, and don’t develop in a vacuum without listening to your users.