Hey everybody. I don’t know if you have done this, but it sure makes my life a heck of a lot easier. Especially if you don’t label each individual photo or file as to what it’s specifically about. I did some google searches and wanted to find a way to make the blue .PSD files from photoshop visible as a thumbnail showing me what it is actually of. I have done this for the RAW codecs for quite some time now, but not .PSD. Unfortunately I don’t have a before picture, but the after picture is something like this:
As you can see this makes life a heck of a lot easier. I don’t want to take credit for this as I am merely a messenger when it comes to the .PSD codecs. I looked for all sorts of info and got lots of complicated options. This site here provided the zip file to download with the proper .dll file and where to place it. It’s three easy steps and a restart to get it to work. It took a restart for me, but maybe not for others. If you can find your programs file folder in you C:\ drive this should be a piece of cake for you. Just to quote the directions so you know what you are getting into:
The solution is very simple and takes less than a minute to implement. You don’t need to even reboot Windows. The change is immediate.
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Download the file, photoshop_thumbnails.zip (62kb)
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Copy psicon.dll to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell – if this folder doesn’t exist create it
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Run Adobe.reg
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You now can view PSD files in Thumbnails view within Windows Explorer.
And a direct link to the download can be found here (you will get a prompt to ask where to put your downloaded zip file.)
As for the RAW files Microsoft has been generous enough (shocker I know) to put out these ‘preview handler’ codecs for multiple camera formats including: ArdFry, Canon (Direct), Nikon(Direct), Olympus (Direct), Panasonic (Direct), Pentax (Direct) and Sony(Direct). The link to the site with all the information is here. What’s real nice is these are all put into nice little .exe self installer packages making our lives easier. Now with that I hope this quick tip has made your lives just that bit more easier as well.
An example using RAW files.
