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kellyy99042662
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June 18, 2022
Question

Ps doesn't show thumbnails for saved dds files

  • June 18, 2022
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The only thing that I can see for all of my saved dds files and svg files are Ps icons and no meaningful thumbnails like with other files like png's. Is there a reason for this? I would like to see whats inside the file from the thumbnail. 

Thanks for your help!! 

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    manal shanableh
    manal shanableh
    Legend
    June 28, 2022

    this will help

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaHO5P6u68c

      gener7
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      gener7Community Expert
      Community Expert
      June 18, 2022

      This should be supported in the Windows os, not Photoshop. The Open/Save dialogs are served up by Windows which would display the thumbnails. You will need a third-party utility to do this. I'd check Google for recommendations. 

       

       

      K
      kellyy99042662Author
      Inspiring
      June 18, 2022

      Been poking around on google. Installed Nvidia's dds thumbnail viewer and an svg extention of which neither one works. Seems a little strange that this only happens with files that would be opened by Adobe products. PDF's, PSD's, DDS's and SVG(Ai) files. I've read where an app called Adobe Reader may be the answer. Are they talking about Adobe Acrobat Reader. Isn't that another charge to be using that in my account? 

      gener7
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      gener7Community Expert
      Community Expert
      June 28, 2022

      Just curious about this. Sagethumbs does generate a viewable thumbnail, but it doesn't generate a thumbnail that looks anything close to what the document really looks like.  There's nothing from Adobe's end that would be better? I was looking at Adobe reader because I read in a post that it works to generate the correct thumbnails. If this is the best that I can do I can live with it, but it would seem that this only happens with Adobe apps. Ps and Ai are the real culprits.

       


      Bridge 12 is the file manager companion app to Ps/Ai and can generate thumbnails, but not at the Explorer/Finder level. It's free and you can get it from the Creative Cloud app.

      https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/whats-new.html

       

      I have never tried it with .dds files, but its strengths is "collections" where different files types can be gathered for a project.

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