PSD thumbnails in Win7 explorer

Is there a way to activate PSD and other thumbnails in Win7 Explorer?

Several.
Free
http://www.josh.biz/technical-notes/view-thumbnail-images-for-photoshop-psd-files-in-windo ws/
Paid-for plugins
http://www.ardfry.com/psd-codec/
http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/
I'm sure others will offer more options.

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Viewing thumbnails in Windows Explorer

I have just bought CS6 and when I save, the thumbnail shows the PS logo instead of the actual photo. How do I change this?

Not sure what you mean. There are no visible PSD thumbnails in Windows Explorer or whatever you are referring to. This hasn't been the case qor several versions now. It existed once, but then the compatibility issues became to great and ever since Adobe has not pursued the matter further. Use Bridge to browse your files.
Mylenium

Viewing thumbnail in Windows Explorer

On my desktop PC running Vista, in Windows Explorer I get a thumbnail showing the content of a pdf file. On my laptop running Windows 8.1, I only get an icon with the pdf logo. Is it possible to get the thumbnail view in 8.1? If so, how?

Not sure what you mean. There are no visible PSD thumbnails in Windows Explorer or whatever you are referring to. This hasn't been the case qor several versions now. It existed once, but then the compatibility issues became to great and ever since Adobe has not pursued the matter further. Use Bridge to browse your files.
Mylenium

Any workaround for viewing thumbnails in Vista/explorer?

Is there any current workound to view psd file thumnails in vista. Specifically explorer. I do use bridge, however sometimes I am already in explorer and thubnails would be great.
Thanks
Rob

Hi Robert,
http://sanbabu.blogspot.com/2007/11/view-psd-thumbnail-in-windows-explorer.html
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/03/15/show-psd-file-thumbnails-in-windows-explorer/
http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8028
Not tested in Vista but this should work.
Regards

PSE9: No thumbnail images of PSD files in Windows Explorer

Win7 x64 SP1
PSE 9.0.3
When using Windows Explorer to view a directory, *.psd files are shown with a generic PSE icon rather than as thumbnail images. PSE9 is set as the default program for *.psd files.
Is there any way to get thumbnail images to display in Explorer?
Ken

Yeah, I've heard that too, but I'm not buying that excuse:
It's not MicroSoft's responsibility for making someone's thumbnails work. MS provides the documentation (I assume) for developers to write code for a DLL to display thumbnails in Windows Explorer. It's up to the developer to do it.
Other software programs which use a proprietary image format do supply those DLLs. Three examples that I use on my PC are:
    a. Corel's CorelDraw and PhotoPaint install the appropriate shell DLLs to display their native files as thumbnails.
    b. Xara also provides a 64-bit DLL which, when manually registered, displays their native file format as thumbnails.
    c. The open-source Paint.Net group registers the DLL to display their native format as thumbnails.
God knows that those three, and especially the Paint.Net group, don't have the hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of developers that Adobe does, yet those three chose to do the right thing and provide what I consider to be an essential feature.
Apparently this has been going on for a long time -- certainly long enough for Adobe to write the darned code, if only Adobe had the will to do it.
PSE9 is the only Adobe product I currently have purchased and this issue just sticks in my craw. Other than that, I've got nothing but praise for the program.
Ken

Free PSD Thumbnail reviewer for win 7 explorer

Hi,
I have CS5 and use Win7- Ultimate-64bit.
What is the free approache to preview PSD files' thumbnails in windows explorer?
Thanks . . .

Google is your friend.
There seem to be plenty of options, lots of them not needing commercial extra software. Many of them are hacks with unknown effects and more for the proficient user. But obviously this issue has been solved for many users already.
http://www.google.de/search?q=psd+thumbnails+windows+explorer

Whodunnit? (Win7-Explorer + PS CS4-Thumbnails)

When I installed Windows 7, there were no thumbnails in the windows explorer for psd-files.
Now - without changing or pimping or installing anything except the regular updates - there are thumbnails!!!
It looks just like a birthday present from Adobe or Microsoft.
Does someone know who's done it?
miss_marple

I think I found the reason!
I found a hint in the web.
Some months ago I installed Microsoft Expression 3 Web, it's a HTML-Editor.
It installed a file PSDCodec.dll in its own Common-Files-Folder.
This codec can produce Photoshop thumbnails.
But it didn't do it till last week. Why? Don't Know!
It seems to work with 32 bit Windows only.
Read more here:
http://www.phat1.com/2010/03/11/how-to-view-photoshop-psd-thumbnails-in-windows-7/
Thank you for listening!
miss_marple

In CS5, Win7...go to File, then Open...do you see .PSD thumbnails with preview images?

In CS5, Win7...go to File, then Open...do you see .PSD thumbnails with preview images?
In all other versions of Photoshop, I can see a preview of the image, even .psd files, but with CS5 now, I just see the PSD icons...this again, is when you go to File, then Open... Anyone else see this? In Elements 9, I see the preview thumbnail icon, not generic, same with CS3 and Elements 7, but not with CS5?

Well, I was thinking if others tried on their Win7 system, they could let me know if they get the same result or different...so by comparison I could see if I had an issue with my software, such as if it were standard... However, I did figure it out... It's a 32-bit vs. 64-bit difference. Elements 9 is a 32-bit software, and so is CS5 32-bit of course....so both of those softwares show .psd thumbnails in the File, Open view...but the 64-bit does not...in Win7 64-bit...in case anyone else is wondering...

Why can't view PSD thumbnail in windows 8 explorer

Hi,
Good day.
I'm encounter a problem, as I just installed the window 8 home and Photoshop CC but I can't view PSD thumbnail in windows 8 explorer.
Did anyone have the same problem?
Thanks.

Moving to the Photoshop forum.

PSD Thumbnails and Windows

After installing a PSD Thumbnail viewer for Win7 explorer, some Photoshop files thumbnails are viewable in Windows Explorer, while others are still showing a PSD Icon for the Photoshop image in Windows explorer, any ideas?

This is just a guess but possibly the previews show for any PSD that has no layers. If it has layers only the icon will show. In Photoshop go to PREFERENCES> FILE HANDLING. By "Maximize PSD File Compatibility", in drop down select ALWAYS. This saves a flattened version with the layers which usually can be read by some file browsers. Hope this works.

Is there a way to view psd thumbnails in Windows 8?

Is there a way to view psd thumbnails in Windows 8 without downloading third-party software?

No there is no way to do this in Windows 8. If you do not want to pay for a codec, here is a cost free alternative.
sagethumbs - A Windows Explorer extension allowing to preview many image formats - Google Project Hosting
Gene

How to show psd thumbnails in windows 8?

My psd files are only shown as icons rather than thumbnails in windows 8 explorer. How cane I change this please?

You would need a third-party codec such as Ardfrey's.
View Photoshop PSD PSB PDD PDF AI EPS INDD files in Windows - x64 PSD CODEC for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Win…
or FPV
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack: PSD, CR2, NEF, DNG RAW codecs (and more) for Windows 8.x Desktop, Windows 7, Windows Vista…
MS really does not support PSD thumbnails.

PSD files in Windows Explorer

I've used Photoshop Elements 2 for a few years and have recently upgraded to Photoshop Elements 4. I am sure I remember being able to view thumbnails of .psd files in Windows Explorer when I was using PSE2. However, now with PSE4, when I select thumbnails in the View menu, all my .psd files show up as a PSE icon (camera). Is there anything I can do either in Windows XP, Windows Explorer or PSE4 to allow me to see my .psd files as thumbnails?

Stuart,
It is the famous story of Adobe leaving the 'psicon.dll' file out of
Elements, starting actually with PSE3. In my experience, reinstalling PSE2
does not seem to work. I never uninstalled it and still lost the
thumbnails. So I went through all the motions manually to get them back.
Take a look at the following thread, which will link you to yet another one
and read it all. There is supposed to be some risk in using psicon, but I
never had a problem.
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bc0a11e
Juergen

.psd thumbnails

How can I view the thumbnail picture on a .psd file in CS6. All I get is a blue box with psd/PS on it instead of the picture that's on that file. This is very annoying because if I'm looking for a specific .psd file I have to look on my picture viewing software, find out what the file name is and then pull it up on photoshop. I have CS3 and I have no problem seeing the picture.

eklojoe wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to answer my question Trevor, it's much
appreciated, but it doesn't fix my problem. I have Fast Stone Image Viewer,
Bridge and Explorer and there is no problem viewing the .psd thumbnails, I was
wondering why I can't view them on CS6. There is no problem at all viewing
That's because the File > Open dialog does not belong to Photoshop, it belongs to Windows. The blue icon is the result of removing a file that wrote the thumbnails because of problems on some systems.
Photoshop had a file called "psicon.dll" that wrote the thumbnails at the OS level but on some systems there were "file locking" problems and Adobe took it out. Since then Adobe and Microsoft have not been able come to an agreement as to who should do what.
You can blame Adobe or Microsoft all you want, but you won't get .psd thumbnails at the OS level. I know, I tried for a year and that was years ago. That's why I went with FPV.
The software I linked you to are "codecs". Upon install they produce .psd thumbnails in Windows so that you can see them when you use File > Open as an example.
Give FPV a try and let me know what you think. Or go with sagethumbs as Trevor recommended.
Yes it does fix the thumbnail problem.
Gene

View PSD files in windows explorer

Is there a way to view PSD files in windows explorer?

I use FastPictureViewer Codec Package its low cost and generated thumbnails for Raw and PSD files for Windows File explorer.

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