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Photoshop Documents (PSD, PSB, AI, etc) Preview on Explorer Add-ons
Summary of the new feature/enhancement
Add support to preview of PSD too. Generally, this is a request to support more file types.
I want to be able to preview PSDs like a photo.
YES! Please add previews for PSD files and PDF files.
What do you mean PDF? Those are displayed already. Right?
Not sure, maybe someone else can check. On my computer, I have thumbnails displayed for almost every file type via 3rd party programs. The main reason that I looked for these types of software were for displaying thumbs for PSD, PDF, and AI files. I would love to get rid of 3rd party software and only need to use the window power tool.
Not sure, maybe someone else can check. On my computer, I have thumbnails displayed for almost every file type via 3rd party programs. The main reason that I looked for these types of software were for displaying thumbs for PSD, PDF, and AI files.
PDF is already supported, I checked. It was actually the reason I thought about PSDs.
I would love to get rid of 3rd party software and only need to use the window power tool.
Same thing, as much as possible, I want everything to be from Microsoft or at least recommended by them. Not really into third-party software.
good idea, something we currently aren't planning to do work on so if a community member wants to help out here, happy to start the conversations
yes, PSD files thumbnails would be great. I also want to get rid of third party tolls for such basic functionality.
Edit: Add thumbnails for PSD files (photoshop files) #7672 is closed now. Will track this here.
@ectoanonymous This is something that the PT Team is not planning to do for now. But a community member could make this happen.
@ectoanonymous I think this is a good idea, something right now the core team doesn't have the bandwidth to do. hence "help wanted" tag. This is something i do see value in
Wanted to add to this When syncing Onedrive files in explorer the thumbnails for PSD's also get pulled. So that must mean that Onedrive has a handler for PSD thumbnails. Maybe it can be reused by the PowerToys team to enable this feature in offline locations.
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@Aaron-Junker This issue is different from the one which you mentioned. It is related to thumbnail, while the one you mentioned is related to peek.
Wanted to add to this When syncing Onedrive files in explorer the thumbnails for PSD's also get pulled. So that must mean that Onedrive has a handler for PSD thumbnails. Maybe it can be reused by the PowerToys team to enable this feature in offline locations.
This really needs to happen! It would speed up my workflow so much.
Has anyone found out an alternative to show thumbnails in windows explorer? I tried adding SageThumbs, Honeyview and a few others that claim they can do this but so far nothing has worked.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Wanted to add to this When syncing Onedrive files in explorer the thumbnails for PSD's also get pulled. So that must mean that Onedrive has a handler for PSD thumbnails. Maybe it can be reused by the PowerToys team to enable this feature in offline locations.
This really needs to happen! It would speed up my workflow so much.
Has anyone found out an alternative to show thumbnails in windows explorer? I tried adding SageThumbs, Honeyview and a few others that claim they can do this but so far nothing has worked.
Anyone have any recommendations?
You can do this with the FastPictureViewer Codec and it works great, but it's not free and previewing files like PSD and Ai natively in 2024 shouldn't even be a discussion for a modern OS like win 11.
Almost exactly four years later and still no progress on this :(
*Sad windows sound
Seriously. Why TF isn't this getting done
There's no need to be rude when the creators are working for free on this.
@CrisA-Works didnt mean anything by it..just trying to get some attention on this. 4 years old
Looks like devs are too lazy to work on this
@Stiphr Don't be annoying, the software is free
Looks like devs are too lazy to work on this
Said the lazy person that's not willing to do it them selves.
Put-up or Shut-up!
Simple words with big results if followed to the letter.
And this is the fourth year....
Seriously. Why TF isn't this getting done
It's no wonder nobody want's to take this on. All the entitled, do nothing nobody's that mistakenly think that somehow insults and negativity are good motivators.
https://github.com/Agamnentzar/psd-thumbnail-provider
This seems to work for me, although I have only used it for a day now. I didn't compile myself yet - just installed (installs a dll in system32) and rebooted... even large complex PSD files I created here in 2025 are displaying proper thumbnails. Uses white for alpha which isn't my favorite, but it's better than a big blue default file icon...
