Image Node Preview
A Blender addon that shows thumbnails for image texture nodes in the node editor.
Note: If you want rendered previews for all nodes, not only image nodes, check out my new addon Node Preview instead.
Required OS: Windows 10/11 or Ubuntu 18.04/19.10/20.04
Mac OS is not supported!
Demo Video
Features
- High performance: Thumbnails are generated by a C++ worker thread in the background, the Blender UI stays fully responsive at all times
- Low memory usage: Each thumbnail takes up 265 KiB of graphics RAM (regardless of the size of the previewed texture). 100 thumbnails would use 25.6 MiB - a negligible amount.
- Supported image formats: jpg, png, hdr, exr, psd, tga, bmp, gif
- Cycles/Eevee nodes supported (Image Texture and Environment Texture)
- Octane nodes supported (Image Tex, Alpha Image Tex, Float Image Tex, Image Tile Tex, Instance Color Tex)
- No changes are made to the .blend, others without the addon can still open your scenes without problems
- High-resolution displays supported (works with Blender's resolution scale feature)
Caveats
- Thumbnails are not displayed for packed images
- Thumbnails of image sequences are not updated when changing frames
- TIF images currently not supported
Upgrade to Node Preview Anytime ($10 off!)
If you have bought this addon, you can buy my more advanced Node Preview addon for $10 off, anytime, with the following coupon code: np-existing-customer
Node Preview shows realtime-updated thumbnails for every node, not just image nodes.
About Me
I am the author of the Blender addon for LuxCore. In 2014, I started working on Blender addons by contributing to the LuxRender addon. ImageNodePreview is my first commercial addon.
Sales | 400+ |
Customer Ratings | 13 |
Average Rating | |
Published | over 3 years ago |
Blender Version | 2.83, 2.9, 2.91, 2.92, 2.93, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 |
License | GPL |

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