This also happens to my icons of photos from many years ago, they are so fuzzy they are almost unrecognizable but after logging out and in they clear up again and have nothing to do with CS 6 or any other program. Logging out and back in, all the icons are visible again and all icons in Dropbox are sharp and Photoshop writes icons again. When this happens, CS6 does not write icons and previously visible icons created with Photoshop CS6 disappear. For instance, half of the icons in my Dropbox folder are fuzzy and the rest are sharp. Some icons are sometimes fuzzy looking and at other times sharp. There are more issues with icons (file previews and folder icons) than just CS6. It is clear that Photoshop CS6 writes icons differently from previous versions and if they would write as previous versions this particular problem would not exist, however, this is not the reason for the problem and not the only problem and it is not Adobe’s fault, it is definitely Apple and here is why.
I am no expert but have been on the Mac since the Mac Plus and I do have common sense. I have been watching this thread for some time now to see if anyone has come up with a solution or even recognized the underlying problem. IMPORTANT: remember to disable icon creation in Photoshop CS6's preferences to prevent icon display problems possibly being triggered on your computer even if there has been no problem so far.įirst off, I have to apologize for the following longwinded comment but there is a lot that has been missed here.
If you decide to use layered TIFF then set the options to use ZIP compression for both the composite image and the layers. Whereas, when Ps creates a custom file icon, it neglects to take the profile into account and the icon will appear discoloured when the document colour profile is other than sRGB. A preview icon generated by the OS will look correct for a document that has a colour profile other than sRGB. There's an added bonus with regard to icons when you use TIFF.
The OS can create a preview icon from the file's embedded composite image. TIFF is written with a composite image in addition to all the document data. TIFF can contain a complete Ps document - all the layers, Smart Objects, Shape layers, Type layers, layer styles, paths, etc. Unfortunately, layered PSD/PSB created without Maximize Compatibility do need a custom file icon for an icon bearing a file's content to be visible in Finder.įortunately, you do not need to use PSD/PSB to store layered Photoshop documents.
The OS can create preview icons for flattened PSD/PSB, layered PSD/PSB saved with Maximize Compatibility and most of the other file formats to which Ps saves, so they do not need a custom file icon for an icon bearing a file's content to be visible in Finder. In the following, notice the essential distinction between preview icon (generated by the OS) and custom file icon (generated by Photoshop). You would want to attach a custom file icon to a file without opening the file in an app then resaving to a new file to which the app will attach a good icon. Nothing except Photoshop CS6 can maintain all the data of a CS6-created PSD/PSB. I suspect Graphic Converter batch mode will do it, but I'm not sure how. Perhaps there is another app that can create the icons reliably? As a post-process after editting?