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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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  1. 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
    2019-10-20T15:16:02+00:00

    I have the same issue here, after 4 seconds with my Raw picture, it still try to enhance 

    the picture,but as a photographer we dont want to have it enhanced.At least give us the option

    to turn off the function.

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2019-12-08T02:02:05+00:00

    I dont but i preview most of them in there and every photo afte few seconds get darker or weird colours

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  4. 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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