Google+ automatically enhances your photos (dubbed Auto-enhance) by removing things such as red eye and improving lighting in your shots, and offers several settings which lets you adjust how hard the feature works, or you can turn the feature off entirely to edit the photo manually. The settings for this is in your Google+ Settings but can be changed on a per album basis also.
It has been possible to download your photos individually or by album for a long while now, but today's tweak allows you to download the original version without any of Google's automagic enhancing as well as the auto-enhanced version. Good news right? Well, there's a tiny caveat: Currently the option is only available within the lightbox, which also means that you can't download entire albums with a mix of original and auto-enhanced shots, it has to be one or the other. It is a great start though and I'm sure many people will be pleased at the option.
To download an original or enhanced copy of a photo, just enter the lightbox (by clicking on a picture), hit More > Download photo > Original/Enhanced.
Will you be making use of this new feature?
Update reported in our Google+ Updates community by +Austin Peachey