Having the AI remove in Camera Raw is great, but I wish it it could be trained to do what it is branded for - "Remove"  - rather than "Replace"   -  So often you try and take people out of the background and all three AI generative options are not the background but a different set of people.  Remove should look to produce more minimalist results, without the thing being removed, rather than a different thing.  Cheers. ... View more

Thank you Mr Bloodaxe, I totally accept your findings for your situation.  Of those that have issue with the UI it does tend to be the less-retired, high-volume photographers who really noticed the slowdown in productivity, whilst those who are able to spend more time per image are probably affected less by the extra seconds it takes for every image for a quick turnaround.  For me personally the new UI initially doubled my workload, that has reduced since down to only an extra 30%  (from an average of  40sec per image to around a minute) , which could easily be retrieved if our UI suggestions were put in place alongside the new UI.      (I feel no need to stoop down to respond to the resident dog, whose knowledge I respect but attitute I detest.) ... View more

Mr Bloodaxe,  great to hear you and ACR get on so well.   How many images a year do you process through ACR?    Also do you still use Lightroom Classic? ... View more

Well, It is a fact that my previous vote on this subject had been "discounted" and that threads have been merged with the subject becoming "off topic" to many of the merged-in threads, (ie. the Crop tool!)   as well as advice that is out of date.   I agree that Adobe is of course free to ignore votes, in fact it is questionable why they are there at all.    ACR is many times better to use than when 12.4 or whatever it was first released, and the 2 years of development to now 15.1 or whatever we are on have made many improvements and some great steps forward.    However, there remain plenty of things that were easier and faster in 12.1, that could still come in time, and still lessons in that UI.   In the meantime, we keep pushing for further improvements, and I think we have ALL helped with getting where we are now.  I do not believe our efforts on here have been as pointless as you continue to insist.     ... View more

Why has my idea for a new crop tool for ACR been moved to this thread?  It has nothing to do with the UI. It is a feature. ... View more

There are several reasons the number of upvotes and votes in general have been low is that the number does not tot up when threads are merged.   When I returned to revisit this thread recently my vote was not on there - it was 78 when I clicked it, who knows exactly how many have been lost overall with threads moving, disappearing, marked as "solved" etc.   Another reason is that this place to vote for change is tucked away.   Not many of the (presumably hundreds of thousands at least) users of ACR will have ever been to this "community."   Acting on the detail of what we were commenting on became ever more frustrating, partly from the attitude of some, particularly those who mostly use Lightroom,  or those that don't throughput thousands of photos to clients a year, or both.  I get that the interface of ACR will never return to the slick, efficient UI it was before, and I personally have moved on to using alternative software where possible.   I'd still very much like an option to have the Legacy crop mode that Photoshop has. ... View more

I would like to suggest a totally new and shiny cropping option for cropping images in ACR that works just like the legacy mode in Photoshop, (and ACR pre version 13)     Basically it keeps the image still while you crop, like you would if you were cropping an image in real life. ... View more

Evolution is not always progress and often ends in extinction.  We had simple, logical steps that could have helped some people without changing anything for those happy with the changes, but they have been trampled sadly by obfuscation, deflection and agression.  Adding an option for legacy cropping etc was hardly asking for square wheels. ... View more