Photoshop PSD files

stevek8 · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:50 am Post subject: Photoshop PSD files

I have just downloaded and registered Xplorer2, and have found a problem. The program refuses to display PSD file thumbnails in the main Xplorer2 window - all that's shown is the binary equivalent of the file. If I open the file in Ashampoo and resave as a JPG file, it displays OK. Is this a limitation with Xplorer2 that it cannot display PSD thumbnails, or is there a setting somewhere that I haven't found yet? Thanks for any help.

Steve

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

i am not familiar with PSD files, but if windows explorer can show thumbnails of them so should xplorer2. If they are big files, you may need to increase the thumbnail file size extraction limit from Tools | Options | General (bottom of page)

stevek8 · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:23 am Post subject:

Thanks Nikos

PSD files are the default file types for Adobe Photoshop Pro. I have left the default file size as 4mb in Xplorer2, but no file is above 2mb in size. I have just checked in Windows Explorer, and do not get thumbnails in that program either. Maybe this is just another Adobe gripe, so is there a way of getting Xplorer2 to display these files, or shall I have to go through the process of opening each file in turn and saving as a JPG file. (I'll only have about 200 to do - heigh-ho!)

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

i can't help much there, it looks like adobe didn't care too much about explorer integration -- or did they? There may be a way to enable this feature, ask your adobe customer support. Or google for "PSD explorer thumbnails" or something similar. Once you enable previews in explorer you will also do so in x2

if you have to go down the conversion route, there are many programs that can do batch conversions, e.g. you give them all the files and they do the conversion in one go. Irfanview is one but i don't know if it understands PSD files

fgagnon · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:17 am Post subject:

Yes, irfanview understands PSD files.

(interrupted post to go to a meeting before checking batch conversion)
(later, after testing to be sure ...)

... and batch converts them nicely. thumbup

ckit · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:26 am Post subject:

XnView is another which I support Smile

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stevek8 · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:08 am Post subject:

Thanks again Nikos - your suggestion to Google is what I did, and hey presto. It was simply a matter of ensuring there was a particular Adobe folder in the 'Program Files' folder, copying a downloaded dll file to that folder, running registry change file and, after rebooting, PSD files can be read by Xplorer2. Thanks to fgagnon and ckit as well. If anybody else is interested in enabling PSD thumbnails, then follow this link - http://board.iexbeta.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=1639

fgagnon · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

nice find, stevek8 Smile

Very convenient even if not perfect for display in x2.
It looks as if that solution has resulted in a minichallenge for nikos to accommodate the fixed thumbnail & QV size (looks like max 256 pixels W or H) output from that .dll
Win Explorer scales the thumbs correctly; x2 truncates (crops) the psicon.dll-created image with no scaling in thumbnails. Same for mini-thumbnails. QV pane shows the preview image at fixed scale: cropped if QV pane is smaller than 256 px, floating in the center if pane is larger than 256px.

[x2 v1.7.0.5 on win XPsp2]