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
    2021-09-13T10:44:51+00:00

    I found a solution that worked for me. Microsoft has another post detailing the issue, An image and its background become yellow in Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista (microsoft.com). It is related to the color profile as a couple others have mentioned, but I had to follow different steps to fix the issue.

    Search for "color management" and open the options in control panel. Microsoft recommended checking "Use my settings for this device" and then deleting the problem profile. I deleted the profile for photos and it had no effect, so I simply unchecked the box next to "Use my settings..." to turn off all profiles and this worked. I am guessing I could go through the profiles one by one and find the problem one, but didn't want to use more time on this.

    Now photos opens without turning my photos orange. It seems the issue is not auto enhance (I remember back in the day when this use to be an issue), but the problem may be related to photos applying the wrong color profile for the monitor.

    Hope this helps :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-11-23T14:07:32+00:00

    The "Use my settings for this device" box isn't ticket for any of my monitors. I tried ticking it but it doesn't seem to matter what it's set to, Photos always bends straight lines in my RAF images and changes the color after a couple of seconds, while TIFF images look like they're fine.

    Photoshop is doing the same "bent lines" thing (colors aren't that extreme though) but only if the images don't use lossless compression (you can simply apply a camera profile, which fixes it). If the RAF files use lossless compression (setting on the camera), then PS won't mess with the images, while Win 10's "Photos" does. This is incredibly annoying!

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-12-27T02:15:10+00:00

    Thank you so much for putting up a solid solution. I can't believe Microsoft did not reply to anyone here. I take both JPG and RAW photos and use Photos to just look through my photos. I don't know when the "yellowing" started happening, but it really pissed me off that there wasn't a quick fix in the Photos app. I'm bummed too about the Windows Photo Viewer being taken away, and this dopey new "app" put in it's place. Maybe Microsoft will learn one of these days.

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