P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

Yay Clayton. Very well put. I went back to CS5 because of all this. Thanks for the great post. I think you put into words what we are feeling here, at least that is how I feel anyway. Thank you.

I agree, there should not be a need for a codec when the past versions of Photoshop worked just fine. I went back to CS5.

If the preview in PS CS5/4 continues to function in newer OS versions, then wouldn't you think Microsoft would DEMAND that you patch those older CS versions, if such a demand was made on PS CS6?

Noel, with all due respect, your choice to use a codec to work around this defective dialogue is great if that's what you want to do. However, not all of us find this the most effective use of our applications.

Using the codec requires showing thumbnails (large thumbnails) in the dialog. This does a number of things:

1. In order to actually see the thumbnails, they must be large, which requires a great deal of scrolling.

2. One must wait for all the thumbnails to populate - an issue indemnic in adding additional software, however supposedly benign, to one's system.

3. Additional expense is incurred.

4. One more application installed and yet one more place that requires troubleshooting when problems arise.

Ultimately, Adobe have broken the dialog. What might seem like a small thing (i.e., a mole hill) to many, is, in fact, a mountain to others. Several of us have attempted to backtrack through Microsoft to the origins of this supposed change in their requirements and have yet to hear solid answers on the subject. Repeated requests for Adobe to provide us contact information for the people at Microsoft to whom we can address queries have gone unanswered.

This is simply a problem. Period. I personally am upset that I am spending money for increased functionality, and switched the the Cloud, and feel I am missing one of the most fundamental elements of the software.

Chris Cox - I"m assuming Photoshop CS5 (and maybe CS4) will continue to run on Windows 8 and whatever is coming after Apple OSX.8+ with the same functionality that it has on current OS's (preview window).

Question: is Adobe planning on releasing a patch that will eliminate the preview window so that those two version will be in compliance?

Wow Noel...I hope you do indeed get off this thread. Frankly, you plugging these precious codecs of yours has become like an annoying Free Credit Report commercial coming on between every break in a TV show.

Where else are people supposed to voice their concerns/complaints? is that not what these forums are for? You accuse people of making a mountain out of a molehill, but who you are to determine one's opinion of what a fundamental NECESSARY feature is in a program and to say it shouldn't be a big deal? I challenge you, next time you're using Photoshop to stop what you're doing, look at how you're navigating the program, and consider what it would be like if a simple everyday feature you use was removed.

Now, please do as you said you would....and quit trolling this thread. Everyone is tired of hearing you plug these codecs that you "claim" you have no association with. We're so happy they work great for your purposes, but they don't for everyone else. Or did I miss a post where someone said "Wow Noel! Thanks! That's exactly what I needed!"

Please read the existing posts in the topic.

Why should there be a need for a codec or hack for something that should be in the product to begin with. It's been part of CS3/4 and CS5.

Wow, you folks are something else! You've filled my inbox with rants.

The phrase "making a mountain out of a molehill" seems to have been invented just for this thread.

Now, you could spend your next 20 minutes flaming me...

-or-

You could go download and actually try using a codec pack, putting your energy into something that might actually help you.

Only one of these things is going to make your image editing experience better.

Please understand that I'm unsubscribing from this ridiculous thread so I absolutely won't see all the awful things you'll tell me to shove in places they're not supposed to go just for sincerely trying to help you do your work more easily.

Have fun!

-Noel

P.S., These are the ones I know about. Google them yourself.

FastPictureViewer Codec Pack
Sage Thumbs codec pack
Ardfry Imaging PSD and other codecs
SoftSea PSD codec
There are probably others

Ok, it appears Microsoft and Apple are part of the problem.
Has anybody thought about boycott.
Maybe photoshop users should has friends and relatives not to buy any new PC's or Mac's, nor upgrade to Windows 8, for at least 6 months.

Since I belong to a lot of photoshop groups on various platforms, I will definitely make sure all those thousands of users are aware that MicroSoft and Apple are partley to blame for this fiasco.

Thank you and good night.