View PSD without Photoshop
Sometimes you may get a PSD image that you need to take a look, but the built-in image viewer that Windows has doesn’t support PSD file format. Luckily, you can view PSD without Adobe Photoshop by using a free image viewer that supports the format. One of the image viewer applications that can view PSD image is MyViewPad.
MyViewPad is a simple yet elegant image viewer that can view about 80 formats and write to about 25 formats, even RAW images can also be viewed. You could be amazed with the list of the image formats supported by this program if you take a look at it at the site. By default each image is displayed side-by-side with its EXIF and IPTC information, but of course you can view it in a different display like slideshow or full-screen view. More »
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You cannot view PSD thumbnail in Windows explorer by default. The answer to this is simply because PSD thumbnail isn’t natively supported in Windows. There are a number of free image viewers out there that can open PSD files, plus some free photo editors that can even edit PSD files, but it would be not that efficient if you have to open an application everytime you receive a PSD file. Anyway, if you’re looking for a dead simple way in how to show PSD thumbnail in Windows explorer, take a look at ThumbView. 