P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

I couldn't agree more with this thread, we need this fixed ASAP, Adobe.
You guys have really made it harder for us to work with our files!

I'm sorry, I don't have names for customer level contacts -- I only work with corporate reps and engineers.

But I would start with their user forums: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/...

I bring up Bridge because a number of threads and postings suggest using it to preview images prior to editing in PS.

If in fact, Microsoft is the problem, please provide all of us the contact information for the appropriate people there so we can voice our concerns to them. I promise we will.

Bring back the files preview as thumbnails when trying to open a file!!!!

I want that FIXED too!!!!

GIMP is the photoshop alternative I recommend to schools who cannot afford the licence for CS5 suites (I teach CS to many schools and kids).

This thread confirms my suspicion that whilst Adobe products are unquestionably the best for professional use, the elitist attitude and blindspot to what is correctly identified here as a core issue in CS6 (shown well in the above thread) makes Adobe largely unsuitable for secondary education.

Whilst increasingly recommending GIMP to schools, I shall be saddened that Adobe cannot see the consequences of their high pricing and poor (long time) customer support.

I read this entire thread. I've also read many, MANY other forums outside of this one. Have you?

The FACT of the matter is, ADOBE took core functionality out of its current product. Your customers (yes, that is ME and everyone else on this board) have told you, and your company (ad naseum) that your company has messed up, that we are upset, and that we would like a remedy to this.

And your response is a simple one: Adobe will not fix it.

We get it.

But keep in mind, Chris. You work for ME! In fact, you work for all of us. Your pay check is dependent upon customers buying the products your company spits out.

If you simply dismiss us, and tell us, "too bad -- deal with it", it's hardly an effective solution of building up a solid, positive reputation for Adobe.

On a side note, for others, there is an alternative called GIMPshop, which is OPEN-SOURCE and FREE. It's no Photoshop (yet) but as the community grows ... who knows. 🙂

Please read the rest of the topic. The alternatives exist (though they really should be provided by the OS). And this was a decision based on the requirements/guidelines of the OS vendors.

Well, I'm another one of the dissatisfied customers. This is a HUGE problem in our workflow. We open up to look for a file and see 20 psd files and have to remember what every single one exactly looked like rather than seeing simple thumbnails.

This is CORE functionality, and Adobe removed it.

What SHOULD have happened is, if Adobe felt it necessary to remove it, for Adobe to provide an acceptable and ALTERNATIVE means to view thumbnails *IN* Photoshop. SIMPLE.

And I'm not talking about launching another program (Bridge) which will consume your RAM and breaks workflow.

We all obviously like Photoshop, but are feeling pushed around and powerless when it comes to the Adobe executives deciding to remove core functionality, and then this Chris guy repeats the message basically saying, "well, deal with it."

My question is, if Adobe is refusing to listen to the feedback from its customers in this regard, is there another up and coming software product in the photo and design marketplace that we could slowly start turning our attention toward?

This is the first time many of us have been deeply frustrated with Photoshop by removing core functionality and simply suggesting we ought to deal with it. It would be good to have options in the marketplace when a corporation turns it back on its customers.

The OS vendors said "don't do that anymore", so we're not doing that anymore.

Why do you bring up Bridge, which has nothing to do with this?

We used to provide a codec for Windows, but the OS APIs caused a lot of problems and we had to stop using it. And according to Microsoft's bug database, they have not yet fixed the problems in that API.

So you can ask Microsoft to provide the thumbnails, or use a third party thumbnailing package.