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
    2020-02-15T15:21:28+00:00

    For me it's with RAW format,he is right about JPG format it doesn't modify the image after a couple of seconds.

    Still really annoying since i use it as a quick look to pre sort the one that aren't good enough on sharpness or lighting.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-10T23:41:37+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-10T22:08:24+00:00

    same issue here. Super annoying!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-08T16:50:26+00:00

    You are completely right. Professional photographers like to have an out-of-the-box double click preview capability for their photos. While doing actual editing in professional software, having an easy preview is nice. But they DO NOT like the photo to change hue, contrast, brightness etc after a couple of seconds.

    I'm an amateur photographer, but please, let me turn this off.

    Also, all of this enhancing unnecessarily costs power and creates footprint in case people do not want it.

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