After an hour of generating, feelings are generous and arithmetic suffers. A fixed set of checks is stricter and faster: five of them, run the same way every time, against the ledger entry you wrote before the session began.
The five checks
1. Likeness. Is she the woman in the entry, or a near relative? Judge against the entry, not the previous frame.
2. Hands. Hands first, then joints, then anything the pose bends. Anatomy errors show at thumbnail size.
3. Light. One source, behaving consistently across skin, fabric and background.
4. Edges. Hair against the bookshelves, fingers against props, lace against skin.
5. Purpose. Does the frame do the one job it was briefed for?
The threshold that saves money
Score each check out of two; eight of ten earns finishing spend — an edit at 21 credits, a swap at 26, an upscale at 61. Below eight, the frame returns to the generator at 6 credits, where correction is cheapest. Enter the scores in the margin and keep them with the set.