Tiny open dialog icons in Photoshop

I recently migrated from PC to Mac and although I love the conversion, there is one thing that I'm hoping there is a solution for: I work in Photoshop extensively and when I have the Open dialog box open, my thumbnails are very small. I don't see any way to make them bigger.
Sometimes I want to take a quick look at a couple dozen similar thumbnails at a glance (without having to press the spacebar for a one-at-a-time Quick View, or using one of the alternate dialog box views which also only show one at a time.)
Is anyone aware of how I can fix this in Mavericks, or if there is a plug-in available that will allow application open dialogs to default to whatever size I have my Finder icon size set at?
Thanks so much for any input!!

Instead of using Opem, you can use "Browse in Bridge" This will open Adobe Bridge wich works a lot better for what you want to do.

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