Timeline Mode Controls (Photoshop Extended); Change Thumbnail Size; Switch Timeline Units (Photoshop Extended) - Adobe Photoshop CS6 User Manual

In frame mode, the Animation panel includes the following controls:
Looping Options Sets the number of times an animation plays when exported as an animated GIF file.
Frame Delay Time Sets the duration of a frame during playback.
Tween Animation Frames
new frames.
Duplicate Selected Frames
Convert To Timeline Animation (Photoshop Extended)
properties.

Timeline mode controls (Photoshop Extended)

In timeline mode, the Animation panel includes the following features and controls:
Cached frames indicator Displays a green bar to indicate the frames that are cached for playback.
Comments track Choose Edit Timeline Comment from the panel menu to insert a text comment at the current time. Comments appear as icons
in the comments track. Move the pointer over these icons to display comments as tool tips. Double-click these icons to revise comments. To
navigate from one comment to the next, click the Go To Previous
To create an HTML table listing the time, frame number, and text of each comment, choose Export Timeline Comments from the panel menu.
Convert To Frame Animation
Timecode Or frame number display
Current-time indicator
Drag the current-time indicator to navigate frames or change the current time or frame.
Global Lighting track Displays keyframes where you set and change the master lighting angle for layer effects such as Drop Shadow, Inner
Shadow, and Bevel and Emboss.
Keyframe navigator
Arrow buttons to the left of a track label move the current-time indicator to the previous or next keyframe from its current
position. Click the center button to add or delete a keyframe at the current time.
Layer duration bar Specifies a layer's place in time within a video or animation. To move the layer to another place in time, drag the bar. To trim
(adjust the duration of) a layer, drag either end of the bar.
Altered Video track For video layers, displays a duration bar for altered frames. To jump to altered frames, use the keyframe navigator to the left
of the track label.
Time ruler Measures duration (or frame count) horizontally, according to the document's duration and frame rate. (Choose Document Settings
from the panel menu to change duration or frame rate.) Tick marks and numbers appear along the ruler and change in spacing with the zoom
setting of the timeline.
Time-Vary stopwatch
Enables or disables keyframing for a layer property. Select this option to insert a keyframe and enable keyframing for a
layer property. Deselect to remove all keyframes and disable keyframing for a layer property.
Animation panel menu Includes functions affecting keyframes, layers, panel appearance, onion skinning, and document settings.
Work area indicators Drag the blue tab at either end of the topmost track to mark the specific portion of the animation or video that you want to
preview or export.

Change thumbnail size

In the Animation panel, you can change the size of the thumbnails that represent each frame or layer.
1. Choose Panel Options from the Animation panel menu.
2. Do one of the following:
Select a size option.
(Photoshop Extended) In timeline mode, select None to display only layer names.

Switch timeline units (Photoshop Extended)

In Photoshop Extended, you can display the Animation panel timeline in either frame number or timecode units.
Adds a series of frames between two existing frames, interpolating (varying) the layer properties evenly between the
Adds a frame to the animation by duplicating the selected frame in the Animation panel.
Converts a timeline animation using keyframes to frame animation.
Shows the timecode or frame number (depending on panel options) for the current frame.
Converts a frame animation to timeline animation using keyframes to animate layer
or Go To Next buttons at the far left of the Comments track.