Finishing benches are where credits go to be spent confidently and, too often, wastefully. An upscale cannot repair a wrong face; a swap cannot rescue a frame that never matched its entry. At the registry desk, no frame travels to a finishing bench until it has passed five checks, each scored against the recorded entry.
The five checks
1. Identity. Face, hair and signature against the entry, at working size.
2. Hands. Fingers counted, joins clean, no merges with props or fabric.
3. Light. One source, behaving consistently across skin, satin and shelving.
4. Edges. Hair against the screen, fingers against the register, 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. Record the scores beneath the entry and keep them with the set.