Hi all. Don't worry, my stupidity will keep you all reading new material now that I'm trying to get back into all this.
I've been fighting an issue with my computers "Windows Explorer" program view. I was barking up the wrong tree for a while, but now I'm still stuck.
Here is the problem. Way back when I anticipated upgrading both my computer and my operating system, I realized I'd lose many of the buttons, bullets, object, and general images that I used on a regular basis in DVD Workshop since that program would no longer run on Windows 7. So, I downloaded all of them and saved them as photoshop images .psd Tons of them!
So I decided to just play a while and look through all of them via Windows Explorer and "Thumbnail View" The problem was, all I got was a generic photoshop icon rather than the actual image. ( I'll post a screen shot of my windows explored window in a second)
I assumed 'Thumbnail view was disabled somewhere, so I enabled it where ever I could find the option to do so. I searched the web and found an additional place to enable it. But .... to no avail. After lots of experimenting, this dummy decided to look in other folders with other photos and see if they were visible as thumbnails in windows explorer, and low and behold, they were, of course. I was barking up the wrong tree.
So now I double click on one ... Photoshop opens it, nice .... I decide to resave it as a PNG file. And ... now it shows up just fine in the thumbnail. If I can't fix the file extension glitch, perhaps I can apply a "BATCH" file conversion to the entire folder so they all end up as PNG files and would therefore show up in windows explorer.
My long winded question .. has anyone run across this in windows 7 and ... is there a way to batch convert all these many psd files.
Here you can see the results of my converting that one file. Thanks all!
OH Brother .. what do you all think of this before I go nuts again. If this solves it .. I'm good and maybe it will help others. I just found this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gguc2cgyWME
Perhaps, knowing the file name of photoshop's codec in it's home folder, I could merely copy it to perhaps a windows system folder and be done rather than downloading this thing.
Also, just found it in a safe place to review .... http://download.cnet.com/PSD-Codec/3000 ... 57208.html
Found this .. perhaps the best for last here and free... http://www.cherubicsoft.com/en/projects ... _b_tcnQPha
that one worked ....
I'm beginning to think everybody but me knew about this .... LOL