can't find the "Make Frames From Layers." in the menu

[susanb95514217]

I am working in Photoshop cc trying to make a frame animation, but when I go to the menu in the top right corner of the Timeline there is no option for "make frames from layers". Does anyone know where to find this? I am in Motion workspace.

[lorraine_7508]

Same here! It's Sept 2025 and this is the first thread that helped me to figure out what I was doing wrong. And it's a post from 2018. The UI is completey confusing. Thank you for sharing!!

[gwenythl65498831]

thank you! What a weiird little corner of the interface...I was stuck and your explanation helped immensely.

[kerryl87001858]

I had the excat same problem! Thanks for help sorting it 🙂

[Snarthur]

I got the answer from iumopap_sdn who expressed my frustrations quite well! But as you have also pointed out, it is not at all clear that the Create Frame Animation is also a button you have to press and is, indeed, something Adobe needs to sort out. Thanks for your clear answer, I finally got it sorted!

[PECourtejoie]

This is a point I've seen many users struggle with, @CShubert 

Could you escalade what @senorita_senor highlighted in their post?

Instead if a drop down we need two buttons to chose from.

[janrox]

I don't want to make an animated .gif, I just want to be able to do what I used to do:  Use an "Action" to make a frame from a picture, background or whatever I had in the layer.  How do I do this?  I feel so stupid, but I just can't do it.  Please give me a step by step instruction or tell me where my old "Action" friend went to???!!!