Viewing Photoshop Styles

Is there anything that would allow styles to be viewed without actually loading them in Photoshop? I have a large collection and would like to find some way to look at them without loading them and then deleting them when they're not the ones I want. It would certainly be a timesaver.
Thanks.
Laylajean

No. Since they are merely parametric definitions of procedurally generated pixels, a viewer for this kind of stuff would have to fully re-create the entire engine, which is anything but trivial. I could imagine that somehow you could view the previews already stored in the preset libraries similarly to those brush viewing tools, but otherwise I don't think that there is any quick way. Might be a task for a script to iterate through all styles and create thumbnails or something...
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