My PSD files used to be visible as thumbnails now they are shown just as PSD files with no preview pic. I have searched the older topics and couldnt find an answer. I am using CS2 with Vista Ultimate 64bit. Thanks in advance.
Copy text between dashed lines to notepad and save as Install.reg
Right click on the resulting file and choose Merge.
You MUST have the psicon.dll present on your system and in the proper location (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\) —————— Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
Add to the usual caveats that I DO NOT provide support for the preceding reg hack. Proceed at your own risk. Back up your system. Always wear a condom.
Is there some reason why at least for Vista and XP (with an update that Microsoft released) Adobe couldn’t make a PSD codec? They have a beta one for DNG, I would think that they should be able to do one for PSD.
Thanks Ho! I had decided to ditch PS 7 and was wondering what happened to my ps thumbnails. I grabbed the shell folder from a backup,ran your install script and all went well in Vista.
Maybe I should heed those Common files uninstall warnings 😮
Well, considering its starting point, it just about had to. It’s still cumbersome to fire it up if all you’re doing is selecting a few files to open. It’s an awkward file management tool. It still falls short of being a DAM solution.
mimicked as much of explorer’s navigation styles and methodology
I have created a Workspace for Bridge which does just that.
However, while it is fine for dealing with image files in its CS4 incarnation, and has a lot of very useful features, Bridge is still not an Explorer replacement.
The recent exchange between Adobe and Microsoft engineers on this very forum has convinced me that it is not "All Microsoft’s fault".
Ho, I just downloaded the trial of Directory Opus 9. At first glance it looks like a very nice program and it shows PSD thumbnails. Only problem is the price – roughly $55 US for a single license, $85 for a 2 computer license.
Powerdesk does show PSD thumbs if it was saved with a composite. Still for image work, it is Bridge for me, for down & dirty directory work, it is Explorer, for more advanced work like directory comparisons, it is PowerDesk.
By the way, PowerDesk comes with a three seat license as well as System Suite 9 which I have been using for over a decade now.
The problem with psicon.dll is in the Microsoft supplied APIs that it uses – they sometimes leave the file open and in-use when it should not be. This caused many customers to fail when saving files because "the file is open or in-use" (ie: the shell extension tried to draw an icon for the file and left the file open). The only solution was to save to a new file, or reboot the machine and unlock the file. Unfortunately, the Microsoft API was the fault, and it could not be fixed from within the the psicon.dll shell extension itself. As a result, Adobe had to discontinue that shell extension (and several like it) to resolve the customer problems.
Chris, any chance Adobe will provide a PSD codec for us Vista users?
I do use Bridge, Explorer is not the issue. The issue is that while in Photoshop, the various file dialogs do not show PSD thumbnails. A PSD codec would definitely be welcome.
Chris,I have not experienced file-lock issues considering I had that dll in there for a while,but I will make a note of it. Most sites and programs bring up Explorer,and it is handy to see a thumbnail of a psd before I select it. I notice Vista can display .jpg,png,pdf,and tif thumbs,so maybe MS can fix this.
Normally, Photoshop’s file open dialog should be showing you a preview for any file type that Photoshop can open. I’m not sure why you aren’t seeing the previews.
It shows a preview of the selected file at the bottom of the Open dialog, but it still shows generic icons in the main window of the open dialog, which is where you need it to see what you are looking for.
No, and the tone of the MS guy who posted in the forums a few weeks ago made it sound as though MS was willing to work with Adobe in sorting this out. Assuming that Adobe wants to sort it out…
Yes please! I am a professional photographer who works with psd files all day long and this has caused serious set backs with my workflow and production time.
it is odd for a software to regress in ease of use and file sharing rather than to progress
that earlier versions like 4-7 had the capability for this proves it can be done to remove it from CS and forward is a continual annoyance & ultimate diservice and disrespect to PC users
the workarounds (registry tweaks psicon.dll) were operational in CS, although unsupported I never has one problem however CS3 this tweak does not work I installed a third party program for thumbnails but it continually crashed Explorer so now we pay for a very expensive program with built in annoyance I HATE organizing files without seeing the thumbnails
Yes please! I am a professional photographer who works with psd files all day long and this has caused serious set backs with my workflow and production time.
Who the damn are you talking to? There is nothing professional about your way of using USENET.
Yes please! I am a professional photographer who works with psd files all day long and this has caused serious set backs with my workflow and production time.
Who the damn are you talking to? There is nothing professional about your way of using USENET.
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He isn’t, using USENET that is 🙂
He is posting in Adobbe Forums, we can see their posts but they can’t see ours. Look at the user name it has @adobeforums.com on the end, that is how you can tell.
The channels in thumbnail resources in 4.0 files are in BGR order. 5.0 and later have the channels in RGB order. For completeness, I’d like a 4.0 file to test with. Surely someone has one of these.
Image Resources are the metadata and supporting bits of information that are included in the file. Starting with Photoshop 4.0, there is a chunk of metadata that is the thumbnail resource. This is provided so that applications need not re-create all of Photoshop in order to render a small version of the image so that it can be shown in Explorer/Finder and other thumbnail browsers.
I am writing the OS level pieces that parse the file, decode the thumbnail resource, and hand the bitmap off to Windows. We have written commercial WIC codecs for DNG, CR2, and NEF in 64 bit and 32 bit flavors. We have received many requests from our customers to develop a codec for PSD, specifically to support TIFF scans that are then converted to PSD with added XMP/EXIF/IPTC info. I have thumbnails working for Vista. I’ve tested it with Photoshop Elements 4.0, CS, and CS3 PSD files from both PC and Mac. These all use the PS 5.0 and later thumbnail resource. If you could email me the PS 4.0 file, then I can let you know if it has what I need.
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