Plus, the image preview situation wouldn’t even be an issue if we could just view the psd thumbnails just as we can view jpgs or tifs. But this only addresses the absence of the single image preview and not the overall lack of viewable psd thumbnails. And, in the end, does it really matter? I’m more of a solution oriented person and unless the cause directly relates to the solution, who cares? But, I did spend a lot of time trying to find out, so here goes a couple of hours of research into a paragraph.Īdobe says that Microsoft’s and now Apple’s code requirements increasingly restrict Adobe’s ability to allow image previews within the Open Image dialog box.

There is a lot of misinformation fed by frustrated Photoshop users and the usual bevy of rumor-mongers. You have to do a lot of research to find the cause of the situation. Not to mention the frustration that comes with not being able to find an image visually. But if you apply a monetary value to your time as I do, it comes out to a lot of wasted greenbacks. Okay, maybe it’s only a minor inconvenience. If that wasn’t bad enough, starting with Photoshop CS6, we can’t even see the preview once the file has been selected within the Open Image dialog window.Īfter one too many times of having to close CS6 and open CS5 just to preview my psd files for one specific image, I turned to the trusty interweb to find out why I have been suffering what could quite possibly be the greatest injustice in the history of mankind.

Instead we see a bunch of blue psd icons. You can’t see the psd file thumbnail in the image viewer. Anyone who has worked with Photoshop in Windows has shared this frustration.

Psd image preview on windows 10