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
    2020-04-24T09:58:17+00:00

    Hello Microsoft!!! Any resolution for this problem. We dont want windows to auto correct our pictures in windows photos app!!! You can make it as an option or expra button to click and do it if someone would like to do it but most of us dont and you are forcing us to use another non microsoft preview program. Also there is an issue with png files as they dont show full resolution of the picture from dji drones but this is for another topic.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-28T12:33:45+00:00

    Can't believe you can't turn this off...

    This is a MAJOR downfall. You just want things to be quick and easy right - it shouldn't be hard, import photos onto hard drive, double click thumbnail to large view, sort through, delete any unwanted files - THEN import keepers to other apps for editing / converting / storage etc.

    As it currently stands - you can't even sort through your files to select which to keep and which to bin - because auto enhance makes them ALL bin worthy... And people will say - "Just use another app"... SHOULDN'T HAVE TO - a basic photo viewer should be a base line feature of any system!!! Am I crazy or is this crazy???

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-24T19:21:43+00:00

    Please let us disable this--it's so frustrating! I'm not using it for professional photo editing, I just need to take screenshots for work sometimes and it's automatically whiting out text when I open the image files.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-17T16:08:46+00:00

    It might be the file format. Here's my perspective for the PNG case. I was looking through a couple hundred PNG files (mostly gaming screenshots for a comp sci university project) and it's been severely auto-correcting the brightness on about 15% of them when viewed in Photos. I used a timer-delayed screenshot to try to capture the 'corrected' vs uncorrected display. Here's a picture of one PNG file the moment you open it in Photos:

    And below is the same picture open in the same Windows Photos app after a few seconds, by which time Photos has 'corrected' the image (note that NO settings were changed or edits made, I just let a couple seconds pass; the clock shows 2 minutes earlier because it took me quite a few tries to be quick enough to get a screenshot of the unaltered version) 

    It doesn't appear to be destructive (for reference, I set the same picture as my background, and you can see that it's the unbrightened/uncorrected version), it's just how Photos is choosing to display the picture, but I agree it's really, really annoying. And in all ~350 pictures I was sorting through this morning, none of them looked better after this correction.

    Please come up with a way to turn this off!

    1. It's sort of deceptive, not only because the preview/icon in the File Explorer doesn't match the image Photos displays, but also because Photos isn't saving the picture like that. What if I saw these images in Photos auto-corrected, thought that the photo turned out great, and just went on with my life thinking that the displayed image is representative of the actual file? Because as far as I can tell, if you actually want the saved file to look like the thing Photos automatically displays, you have to go in and edit the brightness/focus/color yourself and then save a copy of it with those changes.
    2. Most photos these days probably come from smartphone cameras, and almost all smartphone cameras already have corrections for brightness/focus/colors, and editing apps to change those. So this seems kind of unnecessary as well.
    3. It's not really feasible to ask people to convert every image they have to a lossy file format just to view it with their OS-standard photo viewer.

    Because I have to go through hundreds of photos, I'm not going to make JPG copies of all of them, look at them using Photos, then find the corresponding PNG of each and sort that as necessary, then remove the JPG as well. I'll just have to download a 3rd party photo viewing application until Microsoft figures out that users do not want their files altered-but-not-really-altered-just-displayed-incorrectly without any user-end notification or consent, and without any functionality to turn that off.

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