Filmmaking Basics/Thumbnail Storyboard/Storyboarding with Photoshop

Creating thumbnail storyboards with Photoshop 4 or 5

Inexpensive Photoshop

Using old versions of Photoshop
Starting with version 4, Photoshop is a very powerful program which is good for creating high quality thumbnail storyboards.
If you have a computer which will run old versions, you can find new copies of old programs on eBay.

Layers is the key

One of the more useful features of Photoshop
If you create individual pieces of artwork in Photoshop on separate layers, it is much faster to refine your images.


Thumbnail storyboards from the lesson on Thumbnail storyboarding



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Kasturika has completed this assignment (pdf) (23 May 2007) Good job! 10 points

Kasturika says, "I used the Microsoft paint application.

I took a screen shot of the storyboard, converted it into bitmap image, made the frames separately and pasted them.

Then I used OpenOffice.org Draw to export the bitmap image as PDF."


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Niri0n in Sweden has completed this assignment (png). Click on the image to see larger version. (23 May 2007) Good job! 10 points


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Wachapon2 has completed this assignment (png). Click on the image to see larger version. (2 June 2007) Good job! 10 points


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Tunderboy9 has completed this assignment. (13 July 2007) Good job! 10 points



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Vijay Singh has completed this assignment. (17 July 2007) Good job! 10 points


This is the first storyboard which looks like a movie.

The figures are positioned as in a movie. The size of the figures are as in a movie.

Yet, these are still very simple thumbnail storyboards. Please look at these storyboards!!!!


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Mok has completed this assignment. (21 July 2007) Very good job! 10 points


Here is a very artistic thumbnail storyboard.

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Fred has completed this assignment. (5 August 2007) Very good job! 10 points

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Mpftmead has completed this assignment (png). Click on the image to see larger version. (6 August 2007) 10 points




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Noblerinthemind has completed this assignment using GIMP (png). Click on the image to see larger version. (16 August 2007) 10 points



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KinnetiK has completed this assignment (JPG). Click on the image to see larger version. (23 August 2007) 10 points



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Sushant has completed this assignment (JPG). Click on the image to see larger version. (01 September 2007) 10 points



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Tharun Bhascker has completed this assignment (JPG). Click on the image to see larger version. (5 September 2007) 10 points



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Moraistelmo has completed this assignment (JPG). Click on the image to see larger version. (7 September 2007) 10 points



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Elisia Johnson has completed this assignment (PNG). Click on the image to see larger version. (01 October 2007) 10 points




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Cristiana has completed this assignment. (08 November 2007) 10 points



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William Lewis has completed this assignment. (13 November 2007) 10 points



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Manuelciosici has completed this assignment. (05 December 2007) 10 points




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Davidmp4 has completed this assignment. (21 December 2007) 7 points




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Marcus Mac has completed this assignment. (28 January 2008) 10 points




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Mike305 has completed this assignment. (01 March 2008) 10 points




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Vikram_Acharya has completed this assignment. (30 March 2008) 10 points




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Eldorino has completed this assignment. (05 April 2008) 10 points


Completed assignment - Creating the thumbnail storyboard

June 12, 2008 -- Rick14 has created a thumbnail storyboard.



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Reference materials

Reference materials for Seduced by the Dark Side! that you might need.
  • The storyboard outline. Print this script outline and use the numbers on this script for your thumbnail storyboards.
  • The original story. To get additional information for your storyboards, look at the original story.
  • A possible floor plan for the movie set. This will help you plan your shots.


The Next Page

Go to Using the library of storyboard frames if you want to just send a list of the storyboard frames that you wish to use for this movie. Probably the fastest way to do storboarding.

Contact your instructor

Your instructor for this filmmaking class is Robert Elliott. You can email me by clicking here.