Enable Thumbnail View For PSD Files In Windows Explorer
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Posted by Venkat on May 17th, 2008
In the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop with the inclusion of Adobe Bridge the thumbnail view of PSD files within the windows explorer is no more present, This can be really difficult if you intent to see preview of the file you need to open the Adobe Bridge inorder to view the preview, which consumes a lot of RAM.
Another way is to restore the the thumbnail view for the PSD files within explorer.
Here’s how to restore thumbnails for PSD in explorer
The psd thumbnail view is not included by design in the lastest version of photoshop. To restore this feature follow these steps:
1. Download psicon.dll
2. Place the DLL in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\
3. Thumbnail previews of PSD files are now back
The psicon.dll can be downloaded from here.
NOTE : Do Backup Your Data, registry and create a restore point just in case anything goes wrong.
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Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Hi,
that would solve a big problem for me.
But does it also work in Vista?
Where is “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\” in Vista -
please forgive me this question, but I cannot find it…
I´d really appreciate if you could help me
and: is there a way to get image fox working under vista or is there
a similar program available, because I really miss a preview in the
open/save_as Dialog box in Photoshop
Thank you very much in advance
all the best
Walter
Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
@walter koessler: You can try this program http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vista/PhotoshopPreviewHandler.aspx to enable PSD File preview in Vista.