The Master Guide / 06 Anchors and stills · Still prompts, storyboard frames and diagrams
Before a frame goes on a page
Six checks before any frame reaches the client, and the fixes for the faults they find.
Six checks before any frame reaches the client, and the fixes for the faults they find.
The full-size check (see Photoreal anchors (Nano Banana Pro) → The full-size check):
faces against the casting close-ups;
hands and touch points, a hard stop (see The quality bar → The hard stops);
the product's shape and label;
no stray text;
no glow nobody asked for.
Against the reference: set the frame beside the department's chosen reference on the five points (see The quality bar → The reference bar). A frame weaker on two of them is remade before anyone sees it.
It agrees with the treatment and the department sheets: wardrobe by name, place, time of day.
It carries the look block and sits with its neighbours as one film; vertical frames are vertical.
A near-miss gets a model edit pass or a new image, within the edit budget (see Photoreal anchors (Nano Banana Pro) → Edit passes, then a fresh image). Never a pixel fix, by hand or by any tool (decided).
Its prompt, settings, result and revision levers are in your take log.
Symptom | Likely cause | One change |
The composition simplified and made symmetrical | Nano Banana Pro's tendency when placement is loose | Write each element's position by screen side and depth; move the main object off centre |
Reads as an "AI image": plastic skin, even light | Beauty words, no ratio, no imperfections | One source with a ratio; pores, creases, wear; remove "flawless" and "radiant" |
Frames in one deck don't match | The look block missing or reworded | Paste the same look block word for word; tighten its grade and light laws; never attach an earlier frame |
Odd, smeared poses | Motion verbs in a still prompt | Still-frame grammar: the instant, the weight, each hand's position |
The face differs from the chosen casting | The face re-described in words, or the role line missing | Attach the close-up with its role line; drop face adjectives; keep the identity lock |
Stray letters on signs or packs | The model fills surfaces with text | Signs blank; the label from the client's artwork; one surgical negative |
Unwanted glow, flare or bloom | Effect words, or a glowing style reference | Remove them; name the source; ask for a clean lens |
A vertical frame cropped into a landscape box | The page layout | Generate and place it at 9:16 |