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October 3, 2018
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Photoshop Timeline - Loop Count and Delay presets (Frame Animation) - Customise?

  • October 3, 2018
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I still have to produce GIF animations regularly for HTML5 Banner Ads fall backs.

There's a Loop control menu in the Timeline palette which has a very limited number of presets or "Other..." to set a custom delay in seconds.

  • Once
  • 3 times
  • Forever
  • Other...

There's also a per-frame delay-time menu which also contains a limited number of presets.

How can I customise these menus?

It would save me SO MUCH TIME if there were more options!

Thanks,

AE

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    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    October 3, 2018

    Both menus have an other option where you can set any value you want.  You can also record actions you use other option item to set values you would like to add.   You can assign a Fn shortcut to these actions  which would be faster than using pull do menu and use menu items to make your setting.  The shortcuts would set the value fasted and not clutter the menu with custom menu items.

    JJMack
    AE-FTW
    AE-FTWAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 3, 2018

    So I guess what you are saying, is that you do not know of any way to customise these menus.

    I thought there might be a config file or array somewhere that could be edited to accommodate this.

    Thanks for the brainstorming on workarounds. I am a regular user of the Action palette features but would absolutely prefer the clutter of longer menus in this instance.

    JJMack
    Community Expert
    JJMackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 3, 2018

    You can only add menu items to some of Photoshop menus. Like menu File>Scripts>Name  menu File>Automate>Name  menu>Filter>Name and you need to code that in a script or a compiled plug-in.  There may be Other menus the you can program menu item into.   The easiest things add things to are palette items like Action set, like Actions, Brushes, Presets etc thing you add to Photoshop.  Adode does not provide and interface to add menu items to all of of Photoshop menu and features.   Are you a good programmer capable of adding  a menu item that would do something to use the other menu item to set a value.  Can you write Photoshop scripts the when the menu item is clicked on the Photoshop script would set the setting you want to set. There need to be some routine That will be run when you click one a menu item. Adobe provide some preset menu items and a custom entry other where you can set any value you want,  If you add an Item what code are you going to provide for that item. What is behind your menu item to make it work.

    If you want a new feature added by Adobe there is a web site to submit your feedback to Adobe this is a user forum site not Adobe's feedback site that is Photoshop Family Customer Community  submit you bug reports and feature request there.  This information is in the guideline for this site The link there will eventually take you to the like I posted.

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