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Camera Raw no longer has 'Open' or 'Cancel' buttons

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September 20, 2026
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I open raw files from my computer by double clicking on them and they automatically open in Camera Raw. It used to have buttons at the bottom where I could cancel the selection, save, or open in Photoshop. But in the last week these buttons have disappeared. Meaning if the selected image is not one I want to work on, I have to press enter which opens it in Photoshop and I have to close the image from there. I can’t close Camera Raw directly.

I’ve already done a search on here and the common assumption appears to be that I’m opening it from a filtered image in Photoshop or something similar, but this is not the case. I’m literally trying to open images from a folder on my computer that have never been opened before.

Does anyone have any options to fix this?

jane-e

Community Expert

@Rob30470722rrzw wrote: if the selected image is not one I want to work on

When you double-click a file, are you doing in from Bridge or Finder/File Explorer? (You didn’t say.)

When you open from Bridge, you’ll bypass the issue of opening the wrong file.

Jane

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analytical_Lighte6cd

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This issue is usually caused by a Camera Raw/Photoshop update or a change in how Camera Raw is being launched.

First, try opening the RAW file from Photoshop instead of double-clicking it:

Open Photoshop.
Go to File → Open.
Select your RAW file.
Camera Raw should open with the Cancel, Done, and Open Image options.

If the buttons are still missing, try resetting Camera Raw preferences and restart Photoshop.

You can also check Creative Cloud → Photoshop → Other Versions and test the previous Photoshop version if the problem started immediately after a recent update.

If Camera Raw works normally when opened through Photoshop, the issue is likely related to the direct RAW file association rather than the image itself.

D Fosse

Community Expert

So the OP already tried display scaling, and resetting preferences (although it’s not clear whether ACR prefs or PS prefs. The latter won’t help).

If the ACR window is cut off:

Move the window as high as you can, and then auto-hide the taskbar so you can get to the lower part of the screen. Then drag the window smaller. (A hidden taskbar reappears when you move the cursor all the way down to the bottom edge of the screen).
Right-click a panel header and choose “single mode”. This closes all panels but the active one.
Toggle ACR (not PS) full screen. That’s the top right corner icon in the ACR window.
Disable the filmstrip by dragging the top edge of the filmstrip downwards until it disappears.

To hide the taskbar, right-click the taskbar to get to settings:

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Rob30470722rrzwAuthor

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I did all of this. dragged down the top edge and made is disappear. Nothing.

D Fosse

Community Expert

OK. So just to be sure - did you reset Camera Raw Preferences, not Photoshop Preferences?

Does this happen with ACR hosted by both Bridge and Photoshop? Those are different, and one can possibly be broken and the other not.

If you right-click in Bridge and choose “Open in Camera Raw, it’s hosted by Bridge. The keyboard shortcut for this is ctrl+R.

If you double-click in Bridge, or just “Open”, it is hosted by Photoshop. If you open from Windows Explorer it is also hosted by Photoshop.

According to your screenshot, the ACR window does appear to be cut off at the bottom.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

I would suggest going to your Desktop, right clicking and go to Display settings and under Scale & layout set both the Scale and Display resolution to Recommended.

Then restart your computer to make sure everything gets reset.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

I would try a reset of the Camera Raw preferences from within Photoshop by going to Edit>Preferences holding down the Ctrl key while clicking Camera Raw.

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Rob30470722rrzwAuthor

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Thanks. Did that and the Raw loaded up like it was the first time but still the same

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Your screen shot helps us see that the entire bottom really is cut off. In my picture below, I tried to match the bottom of your screen shot, and you can see that everything inside the red rectangle in my screen shot is totally cut off on your screen. On the right, compare where the panel stack, scroll bar, and bottom tools are cut off. You can see that in my screen shot, there should be a lot more down there, even before you get to the buttons. That whole bottom is missing in your screen shot. Your tools should end with the grid overlay toggle at the bottom, but instead yours ends with the sampler overlay toggle (eyedropper). The last panel should be Calibration, not Lens Blur, and also in your screen shot the tools below the filmstrip are cut off (magnification, ratings, filters, before/after…). So you have to somehow resize that Camera Raw window and bring the entire bottom into view. You can use the window resizing suggestions that D Fosse and Jeff Arola already suggested.

Are any other application windows cut off, like a web browser, word processor, or Photoshop? Or just Camera Raw?

If only Camera Raw is cut off at the bottom, then you troubleshoot Camera Raw.

If other applications are also cut off at the bottom, then troubleshoot at the system or hardware level. For example, my monitor (in the firmware, not in the computer OS) has a setting where you can shift the entire screen image up/down or left/right.

One more way to try it…in Windows display settings, increase the display resolution so that the entire current dimensions of the Camera Raw window are visible, then drag up the bottom edge to shrink its height, then go back and change the display resolution back to what you want. But make sure the display resolution you set your screen to meets or exceeds the minimum in the Photoshop System Requirements.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

If you mean you don’t see any buttons at the bottom, that sounds like the bottom of the dialog box is getting cut off.

If you don’t see Open or Cancel, do you see an OK button instead? The OK button is the giveaway that it’s opened as a layer and not as a file, but even if you saw an OK button, there would still be a Cancel button.

So there should always be a Cancel button, no matter how it opens. If you aren’t even seeing a Cancel button, you should look into whether the window bottom is beyond the bottom of the screen. If it is, use some of the window resizing tips that Jeff Arola mentioned.

Another clue: Can you see the workflow settings (color space, bit depth, resolution…)? If you can‘t see those either, then the bottom of the Camera Raw window is definitely being cut off and you definitely have to reduce the window height.

Do you have a macOS or Windows computer? If this is a new problem and it’s a Windows PC, have you recently changed the Windows display scaling percentage above 100%? (Not the display resolution, this is a different Windows setting.) If so, try setting it back to 100%. Percentages well over 100% may push some interface items off the edges of the screen.

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Rob30470722rrzwAuthor

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I cannot see the Workflow setting you are showing above.

I have a Windows computer. I tried setting the scaling percentage to 100% and nothing changes

D Fosse

Community Expert

That means the ACR window is cut off. A couple of things to try:

Move the window as high as you can, and then auto-hide the taskbar so you can get to the lower part of the screen. Then drag the window smaller. (A hidden taskbar reappears when you move the cursor all the way down to the bottom edge of the screen).
Right-click the panel header and choose “single mode”. This closes all panels but the active one.
Toggle ACR (not PS) full screen. That’s the top right corner icon in the ACR window.
Disable the filmstrip by dragging the top edge of the filmstrip downwards until it disappears.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

What version of Photoshop, Camera Raw and operating system are you using?

Perhaps the bottom of the Camera Raw dialog is just off the screen?

If you hit the F key when your in the Camera raw dialog, does the Camera Raw dialog fit on the screen and the Open and Cancel buttons appear?

If not, can you post a screenshot of what your seeing?

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Rob30470722rrzwAuthor

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Thank you.

I have all the latest version of Photoshop and Camera Raw installed. I’m on Windows 11.

Hitting F simply makes the program go full screen and then smaller.

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