Thumbnails in CS6 PS

Surely thumbnails in CS6 cannot have been removed? Both Bridge and mini-bridge often dont provide thumbnails, regardless of the method of view selected. What can I do to see thumbnails in PS, as I was able to previously?

Thanks but no... I'm talking about the thumbnails that would appear in panels like File > Open to illustrate images, whether jpg's or psd's. I can browse through Bridge and get some psd's viewable as thumbnails, but only some. The forums online highlight the problem but suggest getting additonal plug-in software. It seems ridiculous to need additional software to make PS Cs6 operate effectively. What am I missing here?

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You can do this easily using Actions and Batching in Photoshop CS6.
Here are two video tutorials on how to do this in CS6, specifically for creating thumbnails; using actions and batching actions. The guys is a little long-winded but is very comprehensive.
And here's an article on how to do the same thing. It's from 2007 but explains the process nicely.

Shape thumbnails in CS6

Is there any way to get the same looking thumbnails for shapes in CS6 ?
With previous versions I could get the position of the shape just by looking at the thumbnail in the layers palette but now they are only generic icons, I have tried to resize them and set panel options ( Thumbnails contents) but without any luck.
It's really a problem if they are many shapes in the document.
Thanks

With the way CS6 displays Shape layers if you target the shape layer and do a ctrl+t or menu item Edit>Free Transform you get the interactive Free transform bounds you want. If you want an interactive transform in you script I would think you could use the scriptlistner code generated for the Ctrl+T step. If you just want to resize the shape some percentage I would think making the shape layer the active layer and getting the active layer bounds that you could resize the layer some percentage. Being its a shape layer Photoshop might do the resize using vector.
I don't know why the old look in the layers palette is so important to you when with the new look Ctrl+T gives you the transform bounding box you want in the image window|tab.
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It is not possible to open a CC file in CS6 ( it is marked "damaged") , since I cannot use the S3D options in CC I have to use CS6.
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even the extention "prproj"is the same.....
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and the thumbnails of CS6 and CC look almost the same allso ( other color maybe Adobe? )

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I am experiencing the same issues with files that I have created using video editing in Photoshop CC. After rendering the files from PSD to Mp4's, and previewing within the folder, Bridge hangs and crashes. This is happening consistently whenever there's an Mp4 in the folder I've viewing, so I know they're not corrupted. I'm actually now creating a folder within the folder to "hide" the Mp4's thumbnail preview. This is the only solution I could come up with for the moment.
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Here is an Adobe Help sheet on the issue. http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/error-waiting-for-bridge-cs5.html
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Actually I've just noticed that thumbnails for jpegs are not being generated either. A thumbnail is only generated if I work on a file in Photoshop and then save it.

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FLVs created with ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER CS6 do not display thumbnails in ADOBE BRIDGE CS6

Could you please attempt to shed some light on why FLVs created with ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER CS6 do not display thumbnails in ADOBE BRIDGE CS6, yet apple finder is able to display thumbnails for these same FLVs without issue?
I'm running CS6 Production Premium with ALL updates installed on 10.6.8
I appreciate any input and help provided the input is provided by someone who either
A) knows the answer because they actually work for adobe
B) actually tried this themselves before attempting to provide a solution
If the conclusion is that it is a codec issue or a header issue with the FLVs You'd have to present a very strong case to back that claim up as it makes no sense whatsoever that CS6 is unable to generate thumbnails for media encoded using CS6, yet Apple finder can without issue. NOT to mention the FLVs in question are CREATED on the same machine with the same codecs installed that is trying to generate previews in Bridge.
Apologies if my frustration is showing, I've gotten and seen several... incompetent replies on this forum regarding this issue and it has never been actually addressed properly as far as I can tell by Adobe support.

We are all just incompetent users here. As pointed out before this is just a user to user forum, Adobe rarely checks in.
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In Bridge CS6 when I view a jpg thumbnail color loss

In Bridge CS6 when I view jpgs as a thumbnail and also when selected to single viewing, the colors wash out. They do not in raw or psd versions of the same photo. They look fine in windows picture viewer and I saved them to my website and they were fine, bridge is the only place they look washed out. How do I fix that?

That means that those JPEGs are untagged, meaning they do not have an embedded color profile. In the case of untagged files, Bridge assumes the image was created in the sRGB color space. Obviously, your files must have been created in a different color space but Bridge can't tell which color space that was because you stripped the profile when saving the JPEGs.

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I've just upgraded to CS6 (design & web premium) and was setting up my workspace in InDesign, and after adding (docking) Mini Bridge there seems to be no preview or anyway to change the size of the thumbnails I can view.
I use Mini Bridge a lot as we have folders that include 100+ assets in, and it's good to see a small thumbnail to quick scan, then to click on it to see more detail. Now all I can see is a maximum of 6 thumbnails, which means I will need to scroll a lot to find anything.
I've read the following topic from the PS CS6 Beta forum (http://forums.adobe.com/message/4286375#4286375#4286375), and was wondering if this "as designed" thinking has been rolled over to InDesign, meaning that in order to change the thumbnail size (with no preview), I have to have Mini Bridge undocked and if I want to see more detail, I have to enlarge the thumbnail, then reduce again to carry on searching?
If so, it seems like a massive oversight, as InDesign is a layout tool and having easy access to multiple documents to include (and to see what they are) is vital, which isn't helped by the seemingly arcane way to access folders.
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Craig Hurford

Adobe needs to realize that if "as designed" results in users thinking it's a bug or otherwise not useful — then it's a bad design choice and should be revised. They need to leave options in place for people that don't agree with some of their "new" aka bad ideas.
Assuming users don't want to use Mini Bridge vertically is just ridiculous — especially since you can't dock it to the bottom in InDesign like you can in Photoshop.
And not showing folders in the thumbnail view is most unintuative thing to do here. If it's a Mini Bridge, why doesn't it behave like bridge and at least have a check box for filtering out folders or something.
Mini Bridge is kind of useless now.
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Bridge CS6- Thumbnails gone and metadata too!

Hi everyone.
I am in panic mode.
I am running Bridge CS6 (5.0.2.4) And PS CS6. I recently updated something Can't remember if it was DNG and/or Camera Raw.
My problem started today when i went to view a folder of DNG images in Bridge. Initially the thumbnails of the images showed up, but then one by one, the thumbnails turned into the Adobe DNG icon. This is happening with tiff files too.
I went to Tools>Cache>Purge Cahe for Folder... That did not help. I simply can not re-generate the thumbnails.
I've also noticed that when I click on almost any image, my metadata does not show up in the Meta Data Panel in Bridge.
Another odd thing is all my images are keyworded. I used to be able to click on an image, and see in the Keyword Panel the keywords I chose for that image. That is no longer the case, however when I open that image in Photoshop CS6 and get file info, I see that my keywords and Metadata is there!
And the very last weird thing: If I go to the Bridge menu>Camera raw preferences, nothing happens. I used to be able to set my TIFF and JPEG handling options there.
This happened as I was finishing archiving about 20,000 images so you'll understand that I am a little bit more than upset....
Your help would be most appreciated.
Jonathan

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I then decided to delete the ACR cache files, the Adobe Bridge 256, 1024, and Full cache folders, since there were tens of thousands of them.
I realize that Bridge might have to rebuild and it would take a while, but was wondering if something got corrupted there.
(I hope this wasn't a mistake).
I relaunched bridge, and as expected, none of my images have thumbnails, but I also see no way to re-generate those!
BTW- All this has happened with my back-up of this archive on a seperate HD.
I am unable to get the CR preference window to show in Bridge but I am able to acces the prefs from within PS CS6!
Going crazy!

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