Gutters, balloons, and the quiet failures of interiors

Print collectors talk about spine roll because the damage has a name. Digital interiors need names too. We use ‘gutter pinch’ when the white alley between panels thins to a smear, and ‘balloon collision’ when a caption box kisses a figure after recompression.

Walk the issue at a fixed zoom. Do not trust a continuous scroll that hides page eighteen between thumb flicks. Write the page number even if the file is a single long strip; future software may paginate it differently.

If a night scene posterises, say how many bands you count in the sky, not that it ‘looks off’. Numbers travel into estate folders. Adjectives evaporate.