Picture defects: find and fix them all at once

An extra arm, a bed shorter than the person, an empty hall instead of a crowd — defects are easier to collect in one pass and fix in a single task. A mark spoils nothing: until you approve a fix, the old picture stays in the book, and when the book is put together, marked pictures are left out by default.

1. In the “Illustrations” section, click Review the novel — the book frames open one after another, by scene and paragraph. To review a single scene, use the Review the scene button in the scene’s picture column. The picture is fine — press the → arrow; viewed pictures are counted.

2. Spotted a defect — click its type in the “Defect:” row or press a key 1–5: Anatomy, Number of people, Body and object, Size and shape of a thing, Other. There is nothing to save; a second click removes the type. The Note button says briefly what is wrong; it is especially useful with “Other”. You can mark any picture of the novel, even while the automation is running.

   

3. The defects bar above the section’s steps counts what you have marked: in total, by type and how many of them are key shots. Thumbnails of marked pictures carry a red “defect” tag. The button in the bar that shows the defects opens the marked pictures one after another — to recheck them or remove a mark you do not need.

4. Click Fix defects in the bar — the number of marked pictures stands next to its name; a similar button above a scene’s frames fixes that scene only. In the window, choose a number in the “Variants per picture” row and click Fix. The repair director (an AI) looks at each picture, finds the cause and redraws it — about 2–3 minutes per picture. You follow the progress in the bar: Journal shows every picture, Stop stops the fix. If the novel is being illustrated, instead of the launch you get Fix when it finishes — the fix then starts by itself.

5. When the fixes are ready, a check button appears in the bar — it opens “Checking the fixes”. On the left is “Before”, on the right “After”, and beneath them what was changed and why. Decide with a single key: Looks good (Enter) — the new picture goes into the book; Keep the old one (Backspace) — the old one stays and the mark is removed; Decide later (→) — on to the next pair. If two variants were drawn, pick A or B first.

6. The defect is still there — click its type in the “Still defective:” row (keys 1–5), add a note if you like and click To the next round. Then click Fix defects in the bar again: the director takes both failures into account. If several rounds do not help, simplify the frame or fix just the problem spot with Mark and fix in the picture viewer.