Photoshop Feature I Would LOVE

Nov 3, 2006 | Filed in Technology | 1 Comment

This post is completely random, but something I would really love is the ability to view thumbnails in Photoshop’s “Open Recent” menu.

I work in Photoshop all day, every day. There are plenty of easy ways to view thumbnails of my work. I can use OSX’s Finder window, I can use Photoshops “Open” window, and I can even use Adobe Bridge. All of these methods are perfectly fine ways to view thumbnails of my work.

But very often, I find myself using the “Open Recent” menu. Usually whatever I’m looking for was just opened a few days ago. But my file names are very basic. An example might be “banner_110306_120x60.gif” which means the banner was created on November 3, and measures 120×60. But that isn’t always specific enough. Was it the banner I created for the website, the e-mail newsletter, or the affiliate marketing?

I guess I could be more specific. I could name my files “This is the banner that is 120×60 and I created it for Joe Schmoe and it has pretty Christmas graphics on it.gif”. Yeah, that would be effective.

There are all kinds of ways to name and organize files. I’m sure I could improve my method, but that’s not the point. If I could just see a thumbnail of what I recently opened, I could jump to a file without opening the last 5.

Maybe nobody else in the world would find this feature useful. But it would make me happy.