P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

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 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?

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 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.

I've been using photoshop for what must be 15+ years now, I even have the original box somewhere.

This is a core feature that needs to be in the main program. Not something I need to run in addition to or hack the registry or any nonsense like that. PUT. IT. BACK. PLEASE!

P.S. all your competitor can view their own files in the open dialog, what does that tell you?

HI all - just thought i'd drop this in for what it's worth - i know i take everything commercial i read on a forum with a grain of salt, but I read somewhere above that Argus preset viewer worked for this problem - and remembered that i'd already bought it for ten bucks and had it on my old computer.

Sing to the angels, it shows |Photoshop previews in explorer windows.
Costs money, but my day was just made.

my 2 cents :)

GG

I think it's clear that most of us would rather a slightly buggy codec than nothing at all. At least give us the option, perhaps with a "beta" disclaimer? This is far from an unreasonable request. I use CC on my personal computer, but at work (and in most workplaces I'm willing to bet) CS6 is all I have to work with. Your other rep claiming it's unreasonable to expect these sorts of fixes to a "3 year old" program (like that's so old for a program that probably cost most users over a grand, come on) is pretty insulting and totally unrealistic.

So prescient.

...crickets.