Disable auto enhance in Photos app

Hi,

I'm having some problems with the Photos app as it automatically enhances my RAW photos, which is kind of ridiculous without actually giving me the option to disable it or not. I've searched online and people suggest to simply disable ''Automatically enhance your photos'' in the settings under Viewing and editing, but I do not have that option, as you can see in the screenshot I've attached below. Is there a fix for this?

Thanks

Edit: I might all add that once opening the RAW photos in the Photos app and after they are auto enhanced they also appear auto enhanced in other image viewing apps, which is completely ludicrous. Only app that displays the images correctly is QuickLook preview.

Hello there, I've been experiencing this issue too since I've updated my Windows 7 to Windows 10. I noticed I couldn't open a .CR2 (Canon RAW format) file with Windows Photo Viewer from a very recent DSLR model. Previously .CR2's from my personal 600D camera openend perfectly so the codec probably got renewed/changed along the way during this time span.

Then I tested the Microsoft Photos app and this program was able to view this image, but it needed a couple of seconds to 'fully' load. About 1-2sec on my SSD and 2-3sec on my HDD. I also have the latest version so the auto-enhance option is not available to me to disable. I've been searching quite a lot how and why, but I couldn't find any reasonable explanation!

But even worse... I also did notice like you that now the change ("enhancement") happens too with my other image viewing programs as well like Windows Photo Viewer which is indeed totally ludicrous :-O It is especially noticeable in dark imagery: it gets a over-saturated reddish hue and also triggers fringing in the regions with high contrast. I've added an example below from a lowest exposure image for a HDR.

**So I ended up deleting this useless Photos app completely with Microsoft Powershell, then I reset all thumbnail cache with the Disk Cleanup feature. And ultimately I payed 10 bucks to installThe FastPictureViewer Codec Pack I had found on the internet. After a reboot everything is fixed and viewing images is now incredibly fast without any modification to the image itself.**I highly recommend everyone to do the same, this program really saves me lots of time and frustration! For real, any photographer knows this amount of money is nothing compared to other costs we have to enjoy our hobby/work.

PS: to some other comments I've read in this thread, obviously we don't use the Microsoft Photos app to edit our RAW's. I do this in Adobe Lightroom but I also frequently do quick checks with the normal pre-installed Windows image viewer program, mostly before importing them into LR to see what's useful to keep and what I can delete right away to save processing power and again: valuable time.

Best regards and have a nice day! ^_^

Dear Microsoft - Could you please show the courtesy to at least reply to the feedback on this thread? As others have said, this is a pointless error that Microsoft should attend to immediately. I paid a lot of money for my PC to use it as a creative work station, and I deserve to know exactly how and when I can take back creative control over my own device.

All the best,

Joel

Hey MS. When are you going to get off your **** and actually address this years old issue? Are you that incompetent or are you just using the devs that Apple toss aside because they're too incompetent? Prove us wrong.

What file types is everyone having a problem with? for me, it's NEF files. I spent an hour and a half on the phone just now with Microsoft.... he's telling me its due to the file format, as it doesn't happen with a JPEG... his solution is to stop using that file format... Not sure why there was an option to disable this before, but it's since been removed from the programming.