The preview window in the "Open" dialog box on Windows is gone in Photoshop. So if I click on a PSD file (once) to preview it, there isn't one. I have to completely open the file or go digging for it in Bridge. This is a very fundamental feature that needs to return, especially for those of us that have hundreds of files to dig through. PLEASE fix this.
I am pretty disappointed that CS6 is no longer supported in any capacity. A LOT of companies still use this version, particularly larger companies that take longer to move to a new version - and even moreso if that new version can only be used on subscription. That seems like an odd decision - I know the reasoning behind it, you don't want to maintain a bunch of different versions. I would understand ditching CS5 and previous, but CS6 is still in such heavy use by corporations and more conservative designers I would expect it, as the last non-subscription option, to be supported still. Regardless, this is still an issue in CC, which I have the latest version of. That Welcome / Start screen is a crappy hack of a response. I would rather buggy codecs than that.
On my old system, when I opened Windows Explorer / File Manager, I had the option to see PSD & PDF thumbnails.
On my new system, all I see are generic icons. See screenshot. I have 1,000s of PSDs so converting them all to TIFFs is not a solution. Is there a reliable 3rd party handler for displaying thumbnails on Win 10?
I use Bridge for perusing through raw files on other drives but it's slow at indexing large collections. So I prefer not to use if for this.
thanks,
Nancy O.
Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
I think it's very awkward that there is no way to preview PSD files, or AI files for that matter, in windows folders or at least in the open
dialog. I am aware that there is bridge, but I am sorry to say that I am
not using it. I might have to look into it again if that really is the
only way to preview files in the open dialogs.
But I think this
is something that needs to be implemented, or better said,
re-implemented as it used to be there. At least in the open dialog...
I agree and if Nikon can develop a codec to display NEF files I am sure that Adobe could develop a similar codec to display both PSD and PSB files. Taking this approach Adobe decouples them selves from O/S reliance. All that would be needed would be to maintain the code to ensure future OS compatibility. Maybe submit as a feature request?
This is as everyone has so stated, MOST ANNOYING! This feature has been apart of photoshop since the inception of the program. Get it DONE, and do it FAST!
I use the Fast Picture Viewer codec pack for Windows that is able to show embedded previews from various documents, including Photoshop, and it works in the PS File / Open dialog. I've used it since XP and it is still working with Windows 10:
I'd really like to see .psd (and other adobe files) as thumbnails previews directly in Windows 10, so I don't need to open Bridge or Photoshop itself to browse my pictures.
As far as I can understand, there's no way to do this in Windows itself and you need to install some thirdparty software.
Does anybody know
1) a workaround to make Windows 10 show a preview psd thumbnail
2) or know a SAFE (no malware, virus) extension to use so thumbnails are shown directly in Windows?
I find the when I install a new Windows 10 preview build I loose FastPictureViewer Codec Pack PSD Thumbnails. I then use Windows control panel use Programs and features to uninstall the codec pack reboot install the codec pack and PSD thumbnails show again.
the thumbnails for psd were shown already but i couldn't destinguish them from the "fast-previwe-jpgs" as there is no PS-icon on the thumbnail (compared to Ai or Id, there's an Icon. see screenshot below).
solved that problem by "show file-ending" in explorer. now i can at least read the file-format in the file-name, which is less sleek than the PS-icon hovering over the thumbnail but it at least... works.
so i guess no one knows how to get back the PS-Icon? it was shown once. i'm sure about that.
So, just so I'm clear, after spending hundreds on this, Adobe wishes me to spend money elsewhere to make it possible to do something they should be able to accomplish natively?
Sagethumbs is free and you can download it from Sourceforge so it is CC. It really works well. Once it is installed, it will appear in you Control Panel and you just have to allocate enough memory for it to view PSDs.
I agree that Adobe has led us down many products that are discontinued or was replaced by something else.
Here is the link to Sourceforge and Sagethumbs.. I hope it helps.
Ya but to bad it costs money & you seem to be selling it. Do you have any advice or suggestions on something we can do or use to view the thumbnails that's...oh i dunno... free & doesnt cost us anything?
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Anyway for your free needs, that has already been answered.
When is it going to happen? Don't say it's a Microsoft issue either. FastPictureViewer can do it just fine for $15. Why can't you? Other apps do it for free! What's stopping you exactly?
Every other app out there can generate thumbnails in Explorer, including 3D apps like Cinema 4D. What's holding Photoshop up for so long? What special draconian measures have Microsoft taken to specifically deny PSD thumbnails from soiling their OS, and no other app?
Acrobat DC does it out of the box now:
Where is that option for Creative Cloud that says: Enable thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer for all CC apps? When is it going to come?
When is Photoshop going to do it? If I sound frustrated, it's because I am. It's been years now of this nonsense. Using Bridge is not an acceptable alternative. I have no use for that bloatware. Don't say submit a feature request either. That's been done multiple times with no result.
There is no excuse any more. Just get it done for heaven's sake!
So use Acrobat DC if you do not want to use other codec packages. Adobe removed that type of support from Photoshop years ago when Adobe started to use Operating system File System Dialog s not Adobe's own dialog s by default. Windows does not display thumbnails for all image file type. I forget what version of Photoshop had that support. You would not want to use it if it could still be installed.
My photoshop files (PSD) do not show an image preview / thumbnail in Windows File Explorer, as do JPG and other image files. I see an option when saving to save a thumbnail, but this does not show up in Windows File Explorer. (Windows 10, Surface Studio)
How do I get PSD image thumbnails / previews for Windows Explorer?
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