Guide asks for a saturated window view (chroma 16.7). Menu now includes sat/satdark recipes (chroma ×1.7 develops — the honesty filter's exception clause). Homography registration corrects the ~1% lens-correction scale mismatch euclidean missed (halo at frame edges). Window crop left, full frame right.
| variant | win L | win chroma |
| guide (LoRA v1+lift s1.6) | 55.4 | 16.7 |
| G hard pick + LUT menu | 62.1 | 14.7 |
| L1 median3 decisions | 60.1 | 14.4 |
| L2 median7 decisions | 60.5 | 16.1 |
| L3 micro-softmax (tau2 r2 l2) | 59.3 | 14.2 |
| L4 gentle blend (tau3 r4 l3) | 63.9 | 13.1 |
| S snap+smooth r8 eps1e-4 | 59.0 | 13.9 |
| S snap+smooth r16 eps1e-4 | 58.7 | 13.2 |
| H1a relayer r12 (guide lows + sensor highs) | 55.3 | 16.5 |
| H3 NB2 genfinish (cautionary) | 47.0 | 42.3 |
| P1 baseline: classic merge + LUT04 | 92.6 | 4.2 |
| P2 baseline + guide fields | 54.9 | 15.6 |
| P3 + gated selection (8% of frame) | 55.0 | 16.2 |
| FULL RES r8 (7032x4688, production path) | 59.1 | 14.7 |
| beat (editor) | 82.5 | 7.2 |
Left: residual map = min ΔE to ANY candidate (bright = the menu cannot supply what the guide asks there — hallucinated content, out-of-menu color, or misregistration). Right: which candidate won each pixel.
Residual: F (base menu, mean 10.5) vs G (+RE LUTs, mean 5.1) — darker = menu can now say it.