Comments on: View Photoshop PSD thumbnails in Vista and Windows 7 Explorer

By: David

David — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:37:04 +0000

Hi, a good solution for 32bit and 64bit Windows7 is SageThumbs!
http://code.google.com/p/sagethumbs/

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:07:56 +0000

Yeah, as proven by their lack of features in the iPad/iPhone – Flash, accessable battery, etc.. Great point!

By: Øystein Amundsen

Øystein Amundsen — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:46:31 +0000

Hi.

I could not get this to work at all. I’ve tried several other things before without luck:
* http://www.cha2e.com/add-the-ability-to-view-thumbnails-of-psd-files-in-windows-explorer/
* http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs.html
* http://www.ardfry.com/psd-codec/?src=regdlg

The two latter actually works, but must be purchased in order to continue to function. I was therefore excited when I read this post. Installed the PSDCodec.dll into “C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\” since this was a folder I allready created for the first point in my list above. Registered the dll as you said, but psd files are still not showing previews…

Any tips?

I’m on a Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit box using Photoshop CS5 by the way…

By: NotBob

NotBob — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:42:25 +0000

US$ 20 for having PSD thumbnails is borderline a scam.

By: Stuart Halliday

Stuart Halliday — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:50:45 +0000

Works a treat on Windows 7 professional!

Many thanks!

By: Natan

Natan — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:13:11 +0000

Followed the steps – works great!

Thank you! You saved me some much precious development time that would have been lost opening psds to check the exact content.

- Natan :)

By: StarWarsFans

StarWarsFans — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:30:48 +0000

When I do this step from the administrator command prompt:
regsvr32 “C:\Program Files\PSDCodec\PSDCodec.dll”

I get this message:
“The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.”

Any idea why?

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By: Don Clark - Atlanta

Don Clark - Atlanta — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:34:59 +0000

This worked great on my Windows7 machine.
Instructions for getting to an administrators command prompt couldve been more detailed: type cmd into the search area from the start menu, then right click on the program cmd.exe and select run as administrator.
It also couldve been easier if you simply included a link to download the 254kb PSDCodec.dll (instead of having to download the 71mb trial version of blend).
thank you for the solution.

By: Dexi

Dexi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:04:38 +0000

Millions Tanks!!!
Works perfect!

By: MacAware

MacAware — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:49:01 +0000

haha i wonder when people will start to realise how much more apple make decissions for their user than ms

By: autoexec.bat

autoexec.bat — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:17:19 +0000

just use this:

http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs/

brilliant! and its free

By: jack

jack — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:19:25 +0000

Wow~!! Thank you!!

By: David Blake

David Blake — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:22:49 +0000

@Aakash, I don’t have any idea: you’ll have to contact Microsoft about their codec.

The Ardfry PSD codec works just fine on 64 bit Windows.

By: Aakash

Aakash — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:06:24 +0000

David: Do you have an estimate as to when the codec from Microsoft Expression Blend 3 will support 64bit?

Thanks.

By: MaJoR

MaJoR — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:58:05 +0000

http://mysticcoder.net/MysticThumbs/

Mystic Thumbs does the job on x64. It has a x86 version, but it isn’t as good as this psdcodec system. But when it comes to x64, this free codec works great.

By: uno

uno — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:11:33 +0000

@tysen
To have thumbnails also for Quicktime MOV files you can use the excellent and free Vista Codec Package: http://shark007.net

By: David Blake

David Blake — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:19:33 +0000

http://www.ardfry.com/psd-codec/

By: David Blake

David Blake — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:19:03 +0000

@sixgun

A 64 bit solution is in the works.

By: Sixgun

Sixgun — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:12:21 +0000

Does not work – tried on Vista 64 – does nothing. All PSDs saved in max compat mode so its not the files. Windows is a pathetic abortion – going Mac next time.