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oisinmchugh
Participating Frequently
June 20, 2026
Question

Crop tool in ACR zooms-out of image and does not return

When I crop an image and finish with it the new crop does not fill the screen. Its stays the same size and just removes all the pixels outside the crop. In previous versions when I would confirm the crop with the enter key it with bring the new images to fit in view. Its is frustrating that I have one more button to click now every time I crop and every time and slightly adjust the crop.

Im using ACR 18.4 on a 2024 M4 Mac Mini

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      Capclub
      Known Participant
      October 14, 2026

      It looks like they still haven't fixed that bug in the Camera Raw 18.7 update
      So I'm still updating and then reverting back to AdobeCameraRaw_x64_18_3_2 because of that damn crop and zooming-in feature
      Why do you keep removing this afterward? Is it just a bug? Or are you going to ignore me? Or are you trying to fight with the user??

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      williamr135639
      Participant
      October 10, 2026

      This is a very annoying problem that should be very easy to fix for Adobe. I edit 300 photos a night doing sports games and 85% of the photos are cropped. I lose a lot of the zooming in back after a crop and every second lost os very precious to me. 

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      pptwr
      Participant
      July 9, 2026

      Same issue.

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      caseye9409085
      Participant
      July 1, 2026

      This has also been driving me crazy. It makes it very difficult to see if you’re getting the crop you want on the first go. And if you’re zoomed in and click the crop tool, you can’t even easily drag the corners without exiting the crop tool, zooming out, and cropping again. I do birds so there is a ton of cropping involved. If it’s possible to roll back this update and restore the previous version I’d certainly be interested.

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      natdog
      Participating Frequently
      July 1, 2026

      Agreed!!! I can do “command + 0” as a shortcut, but it’s still not a solution. Someone else mentioned they found the previous camera raw version and just rolled theirs back to that. Either way, Adobe should definitely fix this issue. It’s terrible! 

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      Erik Bloodaxe
      Erik Bloodaxe
      Legend
      June 20, 2026

       

      Not a bug, new design in 18.4.

      Watch this:

      Source: YouTube https://share.google/alkk6d54peQ4FMvHZ

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      oisinmchughAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      June 20, 2026

      Hi Erik, there was nothing in that video specifically about cropping. It was a bug last year when I reached out with the same issue. It's doing the same thing now. 

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      Erik Bloodaxe
      Erik Bloodaxe
      Legend
      June 20, 2026

      Soory, should have pionted out that the video describes all the new features in 18.4. The info about the new behaviour of the crop tool begins 10 mins from the start.

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