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July 17, 2026
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Please Bring Back the ‘Constrain Crop’ Option in Adobe Camera Raw

  • July 17, 2026
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Please Bring Back the “Constrain Crop” Option in Adobe Camera Raw

Please bring back the “Constrain Crop” option that was available in previous versions of Adobe Camera Raw.

This feature automatically adjusted the crop boundary when an image was rotated, preventing empty or transparent areas from appearing around the edges. It was extremely useful for photographers who need to straighten and crop large numbers of images quickly.

In the latest version, this option is no longer available, which makes the cropping workflow much slower and less convenient. Users now have to manually adjust the crop after every rotation, even though the previous feature handled this automatically with a single checkbox.

Removing this option feels like a significant step backward, especially for professional photographers who process hundreds or thousands of images at a time. Please restore the original “Constrain Crop” checkbox, or provide an equivalent option that users can enable or disable depending on their workflow.

This was a simple but essential feature, and bringing it back would greatly improve the efficiency of Adobe Camera Raw.


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    5 replies

    Participant
    August 17, 2026

    This change of behaviour had destroyed my batch workflow and I’m assuming anyone else who has to make geometry adjustments and can’t use generative data. At the very least, once it is on, in needs to stay on when readjusting the crop. I would love to be able to have it as a default again too, but at least make it functional please.

    plannerface
    Participant
    July 31, 2026

    I think this is the same problem I’m having but couldn’t work out what change was causing it. I take my photos in 16:9 and change the crop to 1:1 in Camera Raw, which has been my workflow for years, and now it’s effectively zooming out instead of just using the original length of the 16:9 crop to be the new 1:1 size. I take all my photos with a certain zoom to ensure I don’t have to do much manual adjustment in software, and now they are all cropped too loosely. Please fix this!

    miknoon
    Participant
    July 29, 2026

    Yes. New Adobe no sense. If you are professional they want you to downgrade. Better slower and with no control… Amazing

    Participating Frequently
    July 21, 2026

    It’s absurd to me that they’ve changed/removed the function but the option still appears in the Sync Settings panel…

    It’s not the same function and it’s not helpful to pretend that it is!

    Participant
    July 19, 2026

    Yes - the current version seems to revert to un-checked when further adjusting the crop. Selecting the checkbox needs to constrain the crop to the photo edges, period.