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Select one animation frame, Select multiple animation frames, Edit animation frames – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual

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Video and animation

Last updated 1/10/2010

Select one animation frame

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(Photoshop Extended) Make sure the Animation panel is in frame animation mode.

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Do one of the following:

Click a frame in the Animation panel.

In the Animation panel, click the Selects Next Frame button

to select the next frame in the series as the current

frame.

In the Animation panel, click the Selects Previous Frame button

to select the previous frame in the series as the

current frame.

In the Animation panel, click the Selects First Frame button

to select the first frame in the series as the current

frame.

Select multiple animation frames

In the Animation panel (in frame animation mode), do one of the following:

To select contiguous multiple frames, Shift-click a second frame. The second frame and all frames between the first
and second are added to the selection.

To select discontiguous multiple frames, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac

OS) additional frames to

add those frames to the selection.

To select all frames, choose Select All Frames from the Animation panel menu.

To deselect a frame in a multiframe selection, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac

OS) that frame.

Edit animation frames

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In the Animation panel (in frame animation mode), select one or more frames.

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Do any of the following:

To edit the content of objects in animation frames, use the Layers panel to modify the layers in the image that affect
that frame.

To change the position of an object in an animation frame, select the layer containing the object in the Layers panel
and drag it to a new position.

Note: In the Animation panel, you can select and change the position of multiple frames. However, if you drag multiple
discontiguous frames, the frames are placed contiguously in the new position.

To reverse the order of animation frames, choose Reverse Frames from the Animation panel menu.

Note: The frames you want to reverse do not have to be contiguous; you can reverse any selected frames.

To delete selected frames, select Delete Frame from the Animation panel menu or click the Delete icon

, then

click Yes to confirm the deletion. You can also drag the selected frame onto the Delete icon.

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