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
    2020-06-29T23:29:49+00:00

    This is crazy that there is no option to disable this. I just saw an old post from 2016 of someone having this same issue but there was an option to turn it off. Now four years later there isn't one? Seems like this has always been an issue for people. If you want to have this enabled by default, then so be it, but you need to give creators the option to turn this off.  It is incredibly intrusive and a hindrance to productivity as a photographer.

    I've been using Window's Photo Viewer from the last version of Windows and it had this issue as well. The new Photos app is WAY more "enhanced" than the previous Windows version and its so much more noticeable. Not at all in a good way. 

    I thought I'd give the new app a try since the older program has since been suffering from huge memory leaks, using every last bit of my 16GB of ram. That being said, I'm better off just using the older program at this point. 

    Please pay attention to this Microsoft, don't make us all jump ship to Apple.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-29T15:35:55+00:00

    At least for PNG I found a 'reason' for 'auto-enhancing'.

    If the background is transparent, the display is 'improved'. With a normal (white background) display remains normal.

    Now let's hope that MS can also join the rest of the world in 2020...

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  3. 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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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-20T23:25:51+00:00

    I think that the most ludicrous thing about this whole scenario, is that there USED to be an option to turn it off.  It has since been removed.

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