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
    2020-12-16T16:46:51+00:00

    Hello,

    If anyone is still having this issue I did find a program that basically replaces the windows viewer. It's called ImageGlass. It's a tiny bit slower but it doesn't touch your raw files at all.

    A few settings I'd recommend turning on is making it your default image viewer, as well as turning on thumbnail view by going to the top-right menu, go down to Layout, and select Thumbnail View so that you can see the rest of the images in the folder that you chose, just like the default image viewer. Also, turning on "Display navigation arrow buttons" in the top-right menu -> settings -> general -> viewer, makes it even more like the default windows viewer.

    The only downside that I found is that you can't view .mov files. But I found that the default .mov viewer works just fine for me.

    Here's a link to their website: ImageGlass

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-15T00:34:15+00:00

    I don't think he's using it to edit, but just to have a look of the image XD

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-28T10:01:11+00:00

    Yeah!

    when will they listen to the people who actually care, "fixing" or changing it doesn't take anything on their part. Literally a five minute job if not less. So it's actually simple ignorance and nothing else.

    But hey, maybe people complained of having the option of turning that process on or off... xD

    Like why does it bother them that you would be able to turn off that auto enhancement thing. I mean what business value does it even bring? Please just change it someone.

    A noticed  a lot of people are commenting about why even use the app. Does it matter why? Like is it illegal to want preview photos so you can start transferring some files around your computer, because it's quite all right for stuff like that if that auto enhancement wasn't there.

    Decided it was worth mentioning; everyone doesn't have access or the skill to either buy or hack Lr, Ps etc... 

    So just keep that in mind!

    :D

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-04T20:05:56+00:00

    I have now run into this problem.

    I assumed this was a 'new' thing because I just bought a 90D and it is using the CR3 format which is new for me. By the looks of it, it has been ongoing for some time.

    Photos handles CR2 files fine but it is 'auto-enhancing' the CR3 files. 

    Extremely irritating and it makes Photos unusable for me.

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