Opening/exporting Photoshop files in preview

I have been relying on Preview to open my Photoshop files, scale them down, and save out as PNG for my web workflow. Preview scales images beautifully and much better than PS' (CS3) Save for Web command.
This workflow is now bust in Lion, as I've just discovered I cannot export to PNG when I have a PS file open, even if it allows that when it has for instance an JPEG open. What gives? I can export as TIFF, with Alpha, but also if I reopen that TIFF file, PNG is still not an allowed format if I try to export. Hopeless!
Has anybody found a workaround for this, or has any other sugestion?

do a spotlight search for Preview. can you find it? it should be in the main Applications folder at the top level of the hard drive. if you can't find it you can reinstall it from the leopard install DVD using Pacifist
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Is anyone else annoyed that you can't open a normal file with preview in CS6 on the Windows platform

Please, please , please restore the the ability of Photoshop to open with a preview on windows machines. That is; a single click on a file from within Photoshop gives a small preview image to tell you what it is you are opening. This is crucial to professional photographers in the industry working quickly with lots of images as I do in the medical/scientific photography field.
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Thanks for correcting my quote/unquote quotes. Yes you are right. Not a very good use of them. I took time out to look at your photos. Very nice. I also play around with photoshop on my ladscape and fine art photos when I am not trying to make a living (that is paying my mortgage, sending kids to school buying food etc). I exhibit these in galleries and enjoy the luxury of spending the extra time on them - they even sell occassionaly.
Sorry if you were offended by the use of the term playing around with photoshop. Obviously your work is very nice. Unfortunatly I cannnot show you the work I do at work because of patient confidentiallity and, quite frankly, the images are mostly gross anatomy, wounds, lots of blood - not the sort of thing I like to share unless you are a health professional.
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