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June 16, 2020
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I update camera RAW to new version and UI was change can I change it back

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I update camera RAW to12.3 and  UI was change can I change it back to older version

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Conrad_C
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Community Expert
June 16, 2020

I just watched this video which may be of interest to some here. It’s by Blake Rudis, who is quite experienced at ACR processing and color grading, and he does not spend a lot of time in Lightroom. Turns out…he loves this update. He thinks he’s going to get better work done, faster, and more precisely, and he points to a long list of details in the new UI to show what he means. He is much more positive about ACR 12.3 than I ever thought he would be.

 

 

My point? Let’s see how these UI changes look if we propose that Lightroom or smartphones did not have anything to do with them. Just on their own. What if Adobe thought through a redesign in order to improve the workflow? That’s what Blake seems to think. If you disagree, when you talk to Adobe about it on the Feedback site, be specific about why it’s holding back your productivity or your quality. And it can’t just be “I hate Lightroom” or “I don’t like change.” Have good counterpoints to the favorable points that Blake Rudis made in that video. If you give good, concrete examples, Adobe might listen: As a Lightroom user, I watched Adobe backtrack and reverse out of a complete redesign of a Lightroom module a few years ago, when users staged a rather major revolt and made their voices known.

Inspiring
June 16, 2020

Blake Rudis isn't doing my work and I'm not being paid to promote Adobe and I do not care about Lightroom.

Participating Frequently
June 17, 2020

Agreed. If I wanted a UI that had the features, look, and organization of Lightroom, I would use Lightroom. I have worked in RAW 8+ hours a day, everyday, for the last 5 years because I preferred the layout, UI, workflow, icons, and features over any other RAW editing software.

Chuck Uebele
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 16, 2020

I personally hate the UI in Lightroom, but after using the new ACR UI I found going back to old ui difficult. 

Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 16, 2020

It’s totally fair if a Lightroom-based UI is not what you want. I just happen to like how Lightroom Classic has handled my 100,000+ images, so that’s where I come from. The best place to tell Adobe what you think about the Camera Raw changes is at the official Adobe Camera Raw Feedback website, where requests can be upvoted and Adobe staff are much more likely to respond and mark the status of a request. This forum is more of a user-to-user place for questions.

 

It looks like there is already at least one request there with some votes and a discussion in progress:

Camera Raw 12.3: How to revert UI to older version, one with vertical filmstrip?

Inspiring
June 16, 2020

That Camera Raw 12.3: How to... That's not an Adobe page? It just some place to chat?

Participant
June 16, 2020

This Camera RAW update is absolutely atrocious. I'm a professional photographer, have been using this for the past ten years, and I cannot navigate through the features quickly to edit in a timely manner. This is crucial for editorial photographers like myself to transmit photos immediately. The scrolling to different features vs. clicking to the next window is a time suck. Please change things back to the order they were. This is God awful. I can't system restore and need the old version back. 

Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 16, 2020

A fast way to get to a specific panel is to press Command (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) while pressing the keys 1 through 9. 

This is actually simpler than the old ACR shortcuts which were Command/Ctrl+Shift+number. And it’s consistent with Lightroom Classic, which has used those shortcuts for many years; this is another example of making all the photo programs more consistent.

 

If you prefer using the mouse, you can customize how the panels stay open (or not) in Preferences. Some of those settings work better on large displays, others on small displays.

 

Inspiring
June 16, 2020

Adobe support did remote on my monitor and tried Single (Default), Responsive, and Multi. Not a single one of those three choices did anything with the UI. Adobe support person had no clue how to get the UI back to what it was. I pay for the tool which is ACR and I have a workflow. I do not apprciate Adobe changing my workflow via a UI that some Adobe techy thinks is cool or whatever. All my work is done on a computer monitor. I have no need or desire to use some tiny, little rinky dink screen. The Adobe tech ended up just remaining silent for ten minutes and then he just closed the session. First time ever an Adobe tech has just given up and not even said good bye.

 

johnf76405211
Inspiring
June 16, 2020

No, we'll be forced to learn the new UI, or never have updates. True, they moved averything for no good reason, didn't make use of the vertical space created to increase the size of previews, there's still no Vibrance option on the Adjustments brush, but at least the UI has now been dragged down to the level of all the other versions. Rejoice!

Participating Frequently
June 16, 2020

The new UI is crap. This software is difficult enough to use without Adobe completely changing the look, name, and interface. I am all for new features and small tweeks here and there, but to completely rearrange and rename stuff I have been using for years is BS. They could at least give us the option to go back to the old UI.

Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 16, 2020

It would be better for you to learn the new UI, because it isn’t going to be changed back.

 

If you learn the new UI, you will be able to use the updates that will come later. Also, part of the reason they redesigned the UI is because now it’s more consistent with the raw controls in the desktop and phone/tablet/web versions of Lightroom, so if you ever want to use those tools, knowing the new Camera Raw UI will be an advantage.

 

If you go back to an earlier version of Camera Raw, you’ll be stuck on that version, and you won’t be able to use it forever. It is likely to become incompatible with a future update to your computer operating system or Photoshop, or if you buy a new camera.

 

The best long term solution is to learn the new UI. It actually has some new customizations, like where to put the filmstrip and which panels to display, so you might be able to set it up in a way you like better.

Participating Frequently
June 16, 2020

I cannot speak for everyone, but as a pro photog and photojournalist of many years, I know absolutely no professional photographers who prefer to edit their photos on a cell phone or a tablet. And honestly, not everyone likes Lightroom. I, like most of my collegues, prefer Adobe Bridge, RAW, and Photoshop. If I wanted a UI that was like Lightroom, I would use Lightroom.

JP Hess
Inspiring
June 16, 2020

Yes, you can download and install a previous version of Camera Raw and that will give you the old interface back. However, that will mean you will not have support for the new cameras that were added in the latest update. The new interface is more Lightroom-like, and personally I prefer it. As far as I know, the only change that can be made is the position of the previews.

Participating Frequently
June 16, 2020

I, like many of my collegues, use Bridge, RAW, and Photoshop because we do not like Lightroom or its UI. The look of the new RAW UI is cheap and 1980's Atari-ish. The new UI is combersome to navigate, ugly, and the tool layout is terrible. Congratulations Adobe, you actually took a step backwards. This is a poor idea and it needs to be fixed.