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Are you sick of not being able to view PSD thumbnails in Windows? Learn how to do it with Sagethumbs an OpenSource alternative created by Russian Open Source developer Nikolay Raspopov by using Pierre-e Gougelet’s GFL library.

Windows explorer will provide previews for the most common image file types in thumbnail view, but not all of them, which is where this software can come in handy. Sage Thumbs can add thumbnail previews to a host of image formats, such as PSD, IFF, TGA, XCF, with support for a total of 162 image formats. Best of all, it will do this in tile view, list view, detail view, and all views, not just thumbnail view.

Sagethumbs also fix the bug found in the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop where the thumbnail view of PSD files within the windows explorer is no more present, This can be really difficult if you intent to see preview of the file you need to open.

SageThumbs is a shell extension that allows you to preview image formats directly in Windows Explorer.Sage thumbs also doubles up as a image converter, which can be accessed from the context menu.

SageThumbs Features

Extended thumbnail image view of Explorer folder

Thumbnail image in explorer context menu (right-click menu)

Extended info tips

Support 162 image formats (224 extensions) via GFL Library

Support additional 26 image formats via XnView plugins (if installed)

Send by mail support

One-click conversion to popular image formats support

Wallpaper selection support

Copy to clipboard support

Compatibility

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Windows 2003

Windows Vista

Windows 7 Supports both 32 bit and 64 bit.

Windows 8 Supports both 32 bit and 64 bit.

Windows 8.1 Supports both 32 bit and 64 bit.

This software is very well done; I wouldn’t hesitate recommending installing it on every Windows machine out there. Well done Nikolav.