How to Rebuild Thumbnails for PSD

Aside from being a widely used and powerful graphics and photographic editing tool, Adobe Photoshop has a variety of processing and conversion capabilities tucked into its menu bars. Photoshop allows you to convert and constrain your photographs and digital images into thumbnail images in a number of formats, including the program's proprietary PSD format. The image processor allows you to do this in batches, saving you a lot of time by eliminating the need to convert and constrain each image individually.

Things You'll Need

• Adobe Photoshop
• Digital images

Instructions

1. Create a new folder on your computer, and copy the thumbnail images you want to rebuild to the folder.

2. Open Photoshop, and select "File" > "Scripts" > "Image Processor" from the menu bar.

3. Click "Select Folder" in the "Select the images to process" section of the resulting dialog box. Find the folder into which you copied your thumbnails, and click "Open."

4. Select the "Save in Same Location" box, or designate a different destination folder using the "Select Folder" option of the "Select location to save processed images" section of the dialog box.

5. Check the "Save as PSD" and "Maximize Compatibility" boxes in the "File Type" section of the dialog box. If you need to constrain the thumbnails you already have to a different size, check the "Resize to Fit" box, and set the "W" (width) and "H" (height) fields accordingly.

6. Click "Run" in the upper right-hand corner of the dialog box to begin the batch rebuilding process of your thumbnails into PSD thumbnails.

7. Check your destination folder to confirm that the rebuilt PSD thumbnails are there and are properly constrained.

References

• Adobe Photoshop Support: Convert files with the Image Processor