Anchor failures and fixes

Symptom

Likely cause

One change

Two people, a mannequin or a duplicate in a panel

Panel framing not locked

A count lock and one person per panel with no reflections; simplify the panel line

A full-body panel seated, leaning or cropped wrong

The framing line is missing

A firm framing line: standing upright; the front cropped where the neck meets the shoulders and running to the feet; the back from the top of the head to the floor; both feet visible

The small front face differs from the close-up

A face drawn at two sizes

Confirm the neck crop and regenerate (on the front-with-head option, edit the small face once)

A garment colour differs between panels

Loose colour words

Colour plus material; the palette lock in the wardrobe and light sentences; one edit pass naming the panel, else regenerate

A face widened, slimmed or beautified

A weak identity lock

The full structure list; a sharper photo; regenerate from the original source

Plastic, airbrushed skin

Beauty words, no texture words

Remove "flawless" and "porcelain"; write pores, uneven tone and marks

No catchlight, or glare on the hair

The light isn't flat

Shadowless, directionless light; regenerate

A rim or key light baked into a sheet

A reference's light copied

A line overriding any light in the references; regenerate

A warm or sepia cast

The model's film bias

Neutral white balance as the first light sentence

A person in an "empty" plate

The model's habit

One edit naming the spot as empty; else regenerate with the intruders named

Wrong count of chairs, cups, glasses

The count was implied

An exact count sentence; one edit pass, or regenerate

The reverse plate scrambles the room

Positions not swapped in words

Spell each object's new side; rewrite the light for the angle

A room too clean and symmetrical

The model's tendency

Lived-in detail, natural asymmetry, an off-centre vantage

A second face in a mirror or a dark screen

An invented reflection

Say the mirror shows no face, or remove the mirror

Garbled or extra label text

Text not quoted; small at 2K

Quote exactly, the artwork as text owner, 4K, no other text; after two failures, the blank-label route

A photo accessory carried over (earphones, a lanyard)

Not excluded

Name each in the exclusion line

Product, skin or hair glows

Effect or beauty-light words

Remove them; one motivated source; it reflects light and gives off none

Another brand's product or logo

Carried from a reference

Narrow that reference's role line, or drop it; name the marks to exclude

Dusk turned to day; the palette shifted

A reference's palette beat the text

Time of day and palette locked in words

The third person's wardrobe drifts in a group still

Over the five-image limit

The group build order; one edit pass with that sheet

Each panel keeps its own tint

Panels made in separate generations

Make a look's panels in one generation

The sheet's studio light or the casting still's film light shows up in shots

The wrong image attached

The sheet stays flat; the casting still is never attached to video

A generic city

The architecture wasn't named

Name the real city's architecture and street furniture

Reflections that match nothing

Surfaces left to chance

Explain every reflection by the scene, or remove the surface

A category restriction missed (such as religious imagery for a betting brand)

Not locked with the brief

Lock the brief's restrictions and check every plate for them