[Tex/LaTex] In graphics/graphicx, how to show actual pictures despite draft mode

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For collaboration purposes I am using the draft mode in my LaTeX manuscript to show todo-notes, remarks and so on. By switching to final mode all of these additions become unvisible.

However, I'd love to switch on the final mode of the graphics/x package to see the actual pictures but \documentclass being still in draft mode. I get an error about clashing options
when I add

\usepackage[final]{graphicx}

My first guess was that the \documentclass already sets the option for the graphics/x package. Following doesn't help either

\PassOptionsToPackage{final}{graphicx}
\documentclass[twoside,onecolumn,draft]{rsauthor}

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\RequirePackage[final]{graphicx}
\documentclass[twoside,onecolumn,draft]{rsauthor}

probably works

Also (without doing that) you can flip the draft flag in the preamble (after \usepackage{graphicx}) as

\setkeys{Gin}{draft=false}

Documentclass `[draft]` option:

Using the optional parameter [draft] to the \documentclass has two main uses:

indicate overfull hbox by a vertical bar in the margin
graphics that are included from external sources do not get displayed (only an outline of the box is displayed). A similar effect can be achieved using \usepackage[demo]{graphicx}.

This has no effect on the tikzpicture environment within a document as that is not considered an external graphic. Its content is typeset and displayed in the output, just as the content of any other environment would be.

TikZ Externalization Library:

The main purpose of \usetikzlibrary[external] and the associated \tikzexternalize is to speed up compile times by converting each tikzpicture into a separate external graphic which is then imported with \includegraphics. Hence, the behavior you are seeing.

This can be disabled on a per use basis by using \tikzexternaldisable within a group:

{\tikzexternaldisable% disable within a group
\begin{tikzpicture}
  ...
\end{tikzpicture}
}

or disabling externalization before the tikzpicture and re-enabling it following the picture:

\tikzexternaldisable% disable outside of a group
\begin{tikzpicture}
  ...
\end{tikzpicture}
\tikzexternalenable% should re-enable at end.

Disabling will probably be required for cases where there are nested tikzpicture environments.

The MWE example below illustrates these and yields:

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Code:

\documentclass[draft]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize
\begin{document}

{\tikzexternaldisable% disable within a group
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw [blue, ultra thick, fill=red!10] (0,0) circle [radius=1] node {1};
\end{tikzpicture}
}

\tikzexternaldisable% disbale outside of a group
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw [red, ultra thick, fill=blue!10] (0,0) circle [radius=1] node {2};
\end{tikzpicture}
\tikzexternalenable% should renable at end.

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw [black, ultra thick,fill=yellow!20] (0,0) circle [radius=1] node {3};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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