P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

I was being sarcastic, Brady. It's very telling for an organization such as Adobe to allow their separate divisions to deal with Microsoft issues separately. No company-wide memorandum, no coordination. I don't buy it. I maintain that it was a mistake and they're not owning it.

You read it backwards Omega....Chris is saying that Photoshop is the one that planned ahead, and Illustrator didn't get around to adhering to new OS restrictions. (Honestly...I guess at this point I'd rather of Photoshop NOT planned ahead)

@Chris is that why Illustrator CS6 has a preview? They planned ahead? Sounds like one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing. One of two separate divisions at Adobe didn't get the memo, eh?

And when Windows 8 gets here and things don't work as expected, people will scream that we should have been prepared ahead of time (and they are already complaining).

Sorry, but we do have to plan ahead.

Still curious on this issue...
Where on the packaging under system requirements does it mention Windows 8?
All I can see is XP & 7. One would think software should be designed for the OS it is designed for.
Adobe may be working towards Windows 8, IT'S NOT RELEASED YET, tackle the "OS restrictions" then... ACROSS THE SUITE NOT JUST PHOTOSHOP

It's really a no brainer... We all paid for a version to work on XP/Win 7...
Any issues with Upcoming OS requirements should not be our problem.

We'll have to see if we can get the Bridge team to work on that.

That's not related at all - and indicates that something is messed up in the file associations (an OS thing) for those file formats/extensions.

I really don't think that needs to go on this thread Simon. I can see how you would think it's related, but that's actually a pretty different issue. That said, I haven't had any problems with that. I'm running Windows 7 (Ultimate) and am able to right-click and select Photoshop CS6 easily. You might make sure you're not selecting multiple files and then trying to do that. I have noticed you sometimes can't do the "Open with" option correctly (or at all) when selecting multiple files. If you still have problems, please search the Photoshop forums for this same issue, or start a new thread about it if there's not anything about it.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION---Chris, I know this is a little long, but please read this and pass along this idea.

Ok, so let's just say there is NOTHING Adobe can do about the OS dialog box. I was just looking at Bridge, and maybe it IS the answer here, or at least a workaround. The problem in Bridge is that the Mini-Bridge version doesn't have a list view. Once you open a folder, a bunch of thumbnail previews pop up in the main window. One thing you guys could do and are absolutely, with no doubt whatsoever, ABLE to do, is provide a list view in Mini-Bridge. The stand-alone version of Bridge has the ability to do list view, and upon clicking on the file, you get a preview, regardless of the file type (AI, PSD, etc). That is one thing that Bridge has going for it that you can't do in the program you're working in. For example, in Illustrator, in the Open dialog box, you couldn't preview files created in other Adobe programs, like Photoshop (and vice versa). In Bridge you can click on a preview and see what it looks like, regardless of the native program it was created in.

So, I've got some images here with some descriptions of what we have versus what we should be able to do:

1) First of all, here's what the standalone version of Bridge looks like with the file List view shown, and the selected file showing a preview of the image. Good. Great. Love it. However, opening the Standalone version of Bridge over Photoshop to open files just isn't efficient, which Adobe obviously knew...hence the reason they introduced MiniBridge into Photoshop.


2) Here's MiniBridge open on the bottom as they originally intended in CS6. As you can see, once I opened the folder that contains the files that the artwork I need is in, the pane on the left becomes blank, and I'm forced to browse via thumbnail view on the right. Once again, not very efficient.


3) There's also the option to dock MiniBridge on the toolbars, but that doesn't help any either. Same problem as step 2 above.


4) Now HERE's a way we could still have list view available and useful in Photoshop. In MiniBridge, there needs to be option we can select that will lay the windows out like this, to where when a folder is opened, the files are shown in the browsing pane on the left (or top, if docked to toolbar), and the preview of the file is shown on the right (bottom on toolbar dock). I did a quick mock-up in Photoshop to show you basically how this would look.
First of all, docked at the bottom.....

Then docked at the side...

So for those of us that have systems that will handle MiniBridge running in the background just fine, this would be great and, more than likely, get us off your back about the OS dialog box preview pane being gone. All it would take is assigning a hot key to open MiniBridge just like many of us do with the Open dialog box (Ctrl+O on Windows), and boom...workflow restored. What do you think?

Speaking of Bridge.....I think I have a solution that you guys could incorporate into it (or at the least, a very sufficient work-around). I'm putting together some JPEGs and I'll post at the bottom an idea I have.