Camera Raw Crop Tool Changes

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April 23, 2026
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Please can someone explain the changes to the crop tool in Camera Raw (18.3)?

When using the gemoetry options I cannot crop to the edge of the image no matter what I do - this was no problem before. When the crop area is maximised, the crop tool no longer drags the cropped area, it only draws a new area to crop.

This is incredibly frustrating. Please can someone tell me how to get the legacy crop tool back? This wasn’t included in any “What’s New” content I have seen.

sullivan1985

Participant

I am dealing with this too and haven’t found any kind of solution to crop to the edges of the frame after using. using “Enable Expand” will let you go to the edge but that’s really annoying. Something changed and its frustrating.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

In case I’m misunderstanding the problem...on your computer, is Camera Raw not able to do what’s shown in the demo below? Or is it something else?

sullivan1985

Participant

If you use any of the geometry correction tools you can not drag the framer all the way to the edge even if there is room to do so as you could do in previous verions.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

But in the demo I posted above, at one point I enable Auto geometry correction, and when I pull the handle on the crop rectangle, you can see the bottom of the crop rectangle hit the bottom edge of the image. So you’re saying that isn’t happening on your computer? (I’m not denying that it happens, I’m wondering if I’m either misunderstanding the problem of if it’s configuration-specific.)

Does it make any difference if Constrain Crop is enabled or disabled?

Erik Bloodaxe

Legend

...and what does it look like now?

Some changes and additional features but, as far as I can see, the function of the crop tool is the same as the previous version.

This is version 18.3.0.2528:

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Matthew22620886695lAuthor

Participant

Yes - it looks like that, but as I say, using the geometry options now change the function of the clicking and dragging the image, with no option to move the image 😓

I think what’s happened is that the full transformed image is now shown around the cropped area, whereas previously it was just cropped to the visible image within the original/selected ratio. Just an odd change that I guess I’ll have to get used to, but it is odd it won’t crop to the edge of the transformed image...