Ok, I am seeing something weird, not sure if it is opus or something wrong with the files. I have one directory of .PSD files that when looking at it in thumbnail mode, I see the actual picture as the icon, but I have a different set of PSD files, where I only get the standard photoshop icon. Looking at the properties, the only differences I can see are that the ones that are working are in the range of 1200x1200x32 where teh ones that are not are in the range of 3000x3000x8. Could the color or size of the image be making this not work? Is there an option I have missed or maybe a bug???
Ideas?
EDIT: I may have found it. Looks like Adobe may have disabled it. Check this out:
I don't mean to be a prick, but DON'T DELETE information when you have a question AND an answer. That's just being selfish and keeps other people from finding the answers easier. For more information regarding this very issue, see this thread:
Opus understands PSD files internally. It doesn't use Adobe's PSD-thumbnail shell extension, so Adobe getting rid of it shouldn't affect Opus (but may affect Explorer). (Actually, it may affect the icons Opus shows for PSD files in Large Icons mode, but it won't affect Thumbnails mode.)
I think the reason you're seeing image thumbnails for some PSD files but not others is that the thumbnail can only be generated if the PSD includes a flattened preview image. (Can't remember what it's called but I think there's a checkbox in the Save As dialog in Photoshop, or maybe in the preferences, which controls this.)
Opus and most other PSD viewers/thumbnailers just extract the flattened version of the image from the file and display that. To display a PSD which was saved without the flattened image would require the program to understand the full PSD format and how to combine all the layers and effects which Photoshop supports.
As for my particular files, it look like the files in question only have alpha channels and thus no real "picture" is there. That is why there is no preview...
