SageThumbs covers 162 image formats (224 extensions) through the GFL library, plus 26 more formats when XnView plugins are present. That official figure — from the project’s own site, ReadMe and SourceForge page — makes it one of the broadest Explorer thumbnail extensions ever released for Windows. This guide explains what that number actually contains,…
ICO and CUR files — Windows icons and cursors — both appear in the SageThumbs format list, and with the extension installed Explorer shows their actual artwork as thumbnails instead of a generic icon about icons. That small change transforms how icon libraries, cursor sets and application resource folders can be managed: instead of opening…
PSP files — the native format of PaintShop Pro — get thumbnails in Windows Explorer with SageThumbs installed. PSP appears in its official format list (you will also see related PaintShop extensions such as pspimage in the full enumeration), so long-lived photo-editing archives, tube and frame collections, and years of layered PSP projects become visually…
XCF is GIMP’s native document format, and SageThumbs can show XCF thumbnails in Windows Explorer — XCF appears in the extension’s official GFL format list. That means a folder of GIMP projects, layered artwork and work-in-progress exports can be browsed visually in the same place you manage the files, without opening GIMP just to remember…
DDS thumbnails are one of the strongest reasons game developers and modders install SageThumbs. DDS — DirectDraw Surface — is in the extension’s official format list, so a folder of game textures shows real previews in Windows Explorer instead of identical icons. Anyone who has scrolled through thousands of files named tex_0417.dds will understand immediately…
TGA (Targa) thumbnails work in Windows Explorer as soon as SageThumbs is installed: TGA is one of the 162 formats in its official GFL-based list, and no extra codec or companion program is needed. Open a folder of .tga textures, sprites or renders in an icons view and each file shows its actual image instead…
AI, EPS, PS and PDF thumbnails are the special case in SageThumbs. The extension can show them, but only when a specific companion program is installed alongside it: AFPL GhostScript 8.54. Without that exact GhostScript, Illustrator files, PostScript files and PDFs stay as generic icons no matter how the rest of SageThumbs is configured. This…
Classic SageThumbs shows thumbnails in Windows Explorer for the main camera RAW formats in its official list: CR2 and CRW (Canon), NEF (Nikon), ARW and SR2 (Sony), RAF (Fujifilm), ORF (Olympus), PEF (Pentax), DNG (Adobe), RW2 (Panasonic), MRW (Minolta), X3F (Sigma) and KDC and DCR (Kodak). Install the extension, restart Explorer and use an icons…
Yes — you can see real PSD thumbnails in Windows Explorer instead of the generic Photoshop icon. Install the free, open-source SageThumbs shell extension (version 2.0.0.23, by Nikolay Raspopov of Cherubic Software), restart Explorer, and switch the folder to a icons or tiles view. SageThumbs reads the flattened preview stored inside most PSD files and…
