Disable auto enhance in Photos app

Anonymous
2019-10-12T21:44:30+00:00

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.

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Anonymous
2021-08-17T09:27:59+00:00

Hey guys,

I found this thing "Color Management" was causing the trouble with my system. Only my second screen had this issue, that it changed colours and whatnot in the program "Photos". This trouble only appeared in my computer after this time August 2021.
The other problem I have is the picture frames the program Photos puts in the place, that happens in both screens. I need to get rid from that, so can maximize pictures. I use hide taskbars to fully utilize screen sizes and that renders any extra frames pointless, I wish windows would always add "on/off" buttons for these new features.

Steps I took:

  1. Open "Settings"
  2. Open "System"
  3. Click "Display
  4. Scroll down and then click "Advanced display settings"
  5. Under "Choose display" select "Display 2: SyncMaster" (*or whatever you have trouble with)
  6. Click "Display adapter properties for Display 2"
  7. Change to tab "Color Management" then click "Color Management"
  8. Change "Device:" to "Display: 2 (SyncMaster 226CW)" (*)
  9. Check box "Use my settings for this device"
  10. Click "Add..."
  11. Choose from "ICC Profiles" -> sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (At least I had that listed there)
  12. Click "OK"
  13. Click "Set as Default Profile"
  14. You should now see pictures normally. (At least what I can observe, I suffer eye colour blindness)
  15. Close unnecessary windows.

My setup:
W10 x64
RTX 2080ti
i9-9900k
#1 Asus Rog Pg279q @2560x1440 165hz
#2 Samsung SyncMaster 226cw @1680x1050 60hz

EDIT: Some typos fixed

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-02T01:45:46+00:00

    How has it been darn near a year since the start of this thread and this issue still exists?!? So incredibly frustrating.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-26T13:56:52+00:00

    Hello Microsoft

    any update here? how we can deactivate this? it is really destroying .RAW and .NEF pictures!

    Waiting for your reply,

    Filip

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-23T11:25:50+00:00

    Hi all, same problem, not the fix you're looking for, but....

    I have reverted to using "Windows Photo Viewer" not the photo App.

    In file explorer, right-click on any of your images that you want o preview without auto-enhance. 

    "Open With" select the "Choose another App" at the bottom.

    From the next list choose "Windows Photo Viewer" make sure you check the "always use this app to open .xxx files"

    Your now back to the way it was.

    You used to be able to turn auto-enhance off in the photo app, but it appears to have been disabled.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-15T09:59:08+00:00

    I'm a photographer like a lot of you.  I moved over from apple to microsoft recently because of the platforms flexibility. This issue however has been driving me nuts as I have 1000's of photos and I will normally look through them before editing or when I show people the finished Jpeg I will use the default viewer. 

    How has microsoft not fixed this? All the need to do is add in the feature back in because it was implemented before.

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