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.

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?

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...