The Location Editor allows you to create much more consistent environments throughout your storyboard scenes. Instead of describing locations repeatedly in your scene headings only, you can now define and refine each location in a dedicated editor.
This helps keep your shots visually consistent and gives you more control over how environments appear across your storyboard.
Where to Find the Location Editor
Open your Storyboard project.
At the top of your storyboard interface, click Locations.
You will now see a list of all locations used in your project, each with a small preview image.
These previews represent how the AI currently interprets each location.
Editing and Refining a Location
To improve a location:
Open Locations.
Select the location you want to refine and click EDIT.
Use the location description field to add more detailed information about the environment.
For example, instead of a simple description like:
Modern office
You could refine it to something like:
Modern open office with glass walls, large windows, white wooden desks, indoor plants, and a minimalistic light green design.
Once you've updated the description:
Click Retry to generate a new preview image.
If you're satisfied with the result, click Save.
Updating the Shots in Your Storyboard
After saving the location:
Return to your Storyboard.
Find the scene that uses this location.
Click the Retry icon below all the shots of that scene.
The images will regenerate using the updated location settings, resulting in more consistent backgrounds and environments.
Using a Fixed Background (Image Reference Mode)
If you want very strict location consistency, you can enable the “Based on image reference” option in your Location Editor.
When this option is turned on, the preview image becomes the fixed background reference for that location.
To enable this:
Open Locations.
Select a location, and click on EDIT.
Enable the toggle “Based on image reference.”
Save the location.
After refreshing the shots in your storyboard, the AI will use this image as the consistent background for all shots in that scene.
⚠️ Important:
Only use “Based on image reference” if you really want to focus on a very consistent background. Because the background is locked to a specific image, the AI will have less flexibility to generate different camera angles, perspectives, or shot compositions.
If you want the storyboard to stay more creative and cinematic, allowing for natural camera angles and perspectives, it’s usually better to:
Leave the only scene heading as your main location reference, or
Use only a short and simple location description in the Location Editor.
This gives the AI more freedom to generate varied and dynamic shots.
Create Different Angles of Your Location
Open the Location Editor and click Generate Angles. Storyboarder.ai will create four different perspectives based on your current location image.
Select the perspective you want to use as the default fixed background for all shots in that scene. Once selected, the toggle on the right will automatically switch to Based on Image Reference.
Return to your storyboard and click the Refresh icon to apply the selected location image as the background of your shot.
Use a Different Background for a Specific Shot
You can override the default location image for individual shots.
Click EDIT below the relevant shot. You will then see all images currently available in the Location Editor for that specific location.
Select the background you want to use explicitly for this shot, save your changes, and click the Refresh icon to update the image.
Upload Your Own Location Image
You can also upload your own image instead of using the AI-generated preview.
This is useful if you want to use:
A real location reference
A set design
A concept art environment
A specific film look
To do this:
Open Locations.
Go to your location and click on EDIT.
Upload your image in the preview section.
Either ensure the image still matches your location description or remove the location description completely.
Save the location.
Refresh the shots in your storyboard.
Your uploaded image will now guide the environment for that scene.
Benefits of the Location Editor
Using the Location Editor allows you to:
Maintain consistent environments across shots
Reduce the need for long scene descriptions
Improve visual storytelling
Lock locations using image references
Upload custom environment images
Control different background angles within a scene