Suggestion for .psd and .psb files
This has been discussed before, but what the heck, another one won't hurt. 😉
Anyone with Max Compatibility turned off in Photoshop knows this is what you get with .psd and .psb files:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/blankpsd.jpg
This despite having the option on in Thumbnails and Previews to use the built-in thumbnails when possible:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/thumbs.jpg
Back in its original form as iView Media Pro, this software always created thumbnails with Mac Comp off. When it became MS Expression Media, it didn't work in version one. It was fixed in version two. Then it broke again as Adobe seemed to have changed something in later versions of the CSx suite that caused thumbnails without Max Comp to drop out again. And that's where we still are with PhaseOne Media Pro.
Please don't suggest turning Max Comp on. It's only real, and original purpose was for users of Photoshop earlier than version 3 was to be able to open layered .psd files. The older versions would see and open the hidden, flattened image. The only thing having Max Comp on now exceeds at is to greatly increase the size of the files you save. I won't do it, nor will many other users. It's a tremendous waste of disk space when you process thousands of images a year.
I understand that there wasn't a good choice otherwise for a preview built from the high res data. Unless you built in a way to perfectly read layers within an image on the fly, the flattened image was your only option.
So the suggestion. I can't speak for Windows users, but OS X creates 512x512 pixel desktop icons. Well more than large enough to use for a thumbnail in Media Pro. So to heck with trying to build previews for .psd and .psb files from the high res data, just use the desktop thumbnail as the image source all the time.
Heck, extend that to all raster images and you'd be able to catalogue thousands of images very quickly. So a couple of check boxes I'd like to see would be something like:
Use desktop icons for .psd and .psb thumbnails
Use desktop icons for all raster images
Whadayatink?
Anyone with Max Compatibility turned off in Photoshop knows this is what you get with .psd and .psb files:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/blankpsd.jpg
This despite having the option on in Thumbnails and Previews to use the built-in thumbnails when possible:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/thumbs.jpg
Back in its original form as iView Media Pro, this software always created thumbnails with Mac Comp off. When it became MS Expression Media, it didn't work in version one. It was fixed in version two. Then it broke again as Adobe seemed to have changed something in later versions of the CSx suite that caused thumbnails without Max Comp to drop out again. And that's where we still are with PhaseOne Media Pro.
Please don't suggest turning Max Comp on. It's only real, and original purpose was for users of Photoshop earlier than version 3 was to be able to open layered .psd files. The older versions would see and open the hidden, flattened image. The only thing having Max Comp on now exceeds at is to greatly increase the size of the files you save. I won't do it, nor will many other users. It's a tremendous waste of disk space when you process thousands of images a year.
I understand that there wasn't a good choice otherwise for a preview built from the high res data. Unless you built in a way to perfectly read layers within an image on the fly, the flattened image was your only option.
So the suggestion. I can't speak for Windows users, but OS X creates 512x512 pixel desktop icons. Well more than large enough to use for a thumbnail in Media Pro. So to heck with trying to build previews for .psd and .psb files from the high res data, just use the desktop thumbnail as the image source all the time.
Heck, extend that to all raster images and you'd be able to catalogue thousands of images very quickly. So a couple of check boxes I'd like to see would be something like:
Use desktop icons for .psd and .psb thumbnails
Use desktop icons for all raster images
Whadayatink?
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