Missing Create Frame Animation option

I want to create an animation, but have always been missing the "create frame animation" option from the timeline panel .
Would appreciate any help. Please note that I am not a pro at photoshop!

When I play the animation it just shows the same image throughout the entire sequence eventhough there is a different image on each layer.

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When I play the animation it just shows the same image throughout the entire sequence eventhough there is a different image on each layer.

Creating frame animations

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSB8C58284-9DEB-44f2-9D8F-7F77594A8CC2a.htm l

why can't you keep to one topic per page? I've gone to three or four pages trying to find out where the animation panel even is, and now I've lost track of what I'm doing. Adobe sucks at teaching

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bill w
astro.whwiii.net

thanks for all the replies
got it
here's a rough draft of 2 hours of sunshine
http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/big/31-05-2014-prom-animation.gif
-bill w
astro.whwiii.net

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thanks for the reply JJ.
I think I have a better idea on what each tool is all about:
allow me to sum it up for anyone who will look at this and for me too.
this is a clarification of these different tools especially related to rotoscoping but not just.
contributions would be appreciated
Frame Animation
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1. more layers - more control
2. easy to make GIFS by changing each layers transformations like here
or here and would be cumbersome to do in Video Timeline
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1. layout requires a bit of getting used to for instance: seconds for each frame and not overall frame rate - you have to select all of them to change them globally (there is a panel option for that though)
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or something wrong with the way I am asking it? Mainly I want
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symbols that are all aligned, and then get them to distribute
automaticaly in their own keyframes. This is really done best
through tweening? I thought this would only worked if all the in
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