Camera Raw revert to earlier version

Remember guys that you can easily revert back to a previous version of RAW.

It's not ideal and we shouldn't have to go about doing this but it is possible so all is not lost. 

I just hope at some point Adobe do something about this as earlier versions will obviously lack certain improvements of later versions. For me and for now it's worth the sacrifice.

I'm late to this update for a few reasons. But I'll echo the complaints here. I used Camera RAW and not Lightroom deliberately. It had almost everything I needed one click away. Now they're several clicks and hidden, and some functionaltiy has disappeared. Net result: it takes longer to prep photos.

To make it worse, there was no option to update/not to RAW, or even any warning of the massive GUI (and thus workflow) changes to RAW when updating Photoshop — and the latter was a necessary upgrade, because the layers/folder behaviour on the old version of PS was buggy.

It is REALLY bad and confusing to land in this layout here

These hidden fields with new namings are somewhat replacing the tabs that used to be . But Raw still has tabs on the right side. And this is where the confusion starts. Every Tab reüplaces the Selection UI completely . No real logical conclusion where you are and why. The settings we are used to are now a brush setting. Which may come in handy at times - in SPECIAL situations. But the general editing field is just plainly aweful. So aweful it is rather an annoyance to use and I then am tempted to click Auto on average jobs and let it be. This is NOT an encouraging and self explaining tool!

I totally agree with all the comments too. The new versions of Camera RAW have increased my workflow and edit times. Really bad idea to emulate Lightroom layout. And now whenever I update Photoshop it automatically updates RAW even though I specifically never update that manually any more. Nightmare

I have to add my 2 cents to agree with every complaint I am reading. I will say CRZ 12.3 adds a few useful (to me) tools but the disappearance or complication of old standards should shame Adobe for all the reasons other posters note.

I cannot find the eyedropper thing-y that used to live in the toolbar. It permitted one to click at a point in the image so that doing so rendered that point as neutral middle gray -- RGB 128/128/128. If that is still available in 12.3 somebody please tell me where.

That defect alone is enough to downgrade. But it is enraging that useful new tools then are out of reach.

Good grief.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/camera-raw-12-3-how-to-revert-ui-to-older-version-one-with-vertical-filmstrip?topic-reply-list[settings][filter_by]=all&topic-reply-list[settings][reply_id]=20598203#reply_20598203

You can revert to the previous version of Camera Raw 12.2.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html#12_x

Also downgrade Bridge to 10.0.4 and the madness that is biased towards lightroom users has gone and harmony is restored

It's quite simple. Use the following link, but replace 11_4_1_win with the desired version, for example 11_3_win:

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/win/11.x/CameraRaw_11_4_1_win.zip

Moved to the Camera Raw forum from the Photoshop forum.