Photoshop thumbnails and CS4

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October 13, 2008
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I have been installing PS7 to get PSD thumbnails to show their image (rather than a generic icon) in Windows. I understand this facility was dropped in CS. Does anyone know if this has been restored in CS4 or will I have to continue to install PS7 before CS4?

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Anonymous

There is an add-on for Vista but now I know what Bridge CS4 is like I'll wait. Apart from being much faster to load and run, one minor improvement that I love is that it shows the full path to the image up top.

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Anonymous

steve could release osx to run on any intel hardware and then we'd have really nice OS level thumbnails. %D

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Anonymous

You guys could all get Macs we have really nice OS level thumbnails. B)

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Anonymous

>I still prefer seeing the image icons/thumbnails in Explorer,

yes, i agree. it's a shame adobe never worked out this issue.

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ArrrBee

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Actually with Vista and XP it would be even easier. All they have to do is
create a WIC codec. They have one for DNG in beta, they need ones for their
other formats, including things like brushes, gradients, shapes, etc. so
that you can see thumbnails of them as well.

Robert

Farrellart

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I have to agree.....cs3 bridge is not that good - especially with large files as it's so sloooooow....I mean, at least 2 -3 hrs to load the previews (2 - 10gb files) - jeezz...

Thumbnails in explorer was really good and it should be re-introduced....albeit without all the save issues.

davidc1815Author

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Despite the advice here to the contrary, when I install CS4 I'll probably stick with PS7 to deliver picture thumbnails - I have been doing this with CS3 since it first came out with no problems. If CS4 doesn't like it I'll take it off my machine.

shoot_me_now-d3u3se

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Agree with John 100%.

I still prefer seeing the image icons/thumbnails in Explorer, and by a wide margin over firing up Bridge for a quick perusal. I hope the new version changes my mind, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Anonymous

nice.

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Anonymous

... and Bridge CS4 is faster and better than CS3.