Kanon CnC Free-Shop!

[Kanon]

This thread is made for the people that are getting about 1,2 or NO CnC when they create a thread in the reply section , i will give you a detailled CnC about your signature with some techniques you could use and some tricks and tips on how to make it better , my CnC will mainly contain from 20 to 60 lines of comment.

Be aware that i will watch your threads before replying to your post here, so don't try to trick me if you gets CnC already, and i will ONLY reply to 3 person a day , in reason it takes me about 10 to 20 minutes to do my CnC.

NOTE : User Must use photoshop so the CnC is really useful ( gimp users will need to traduct the filters and tools themself )

EDIT : seeing the signatures , i may or i may not give the same tricks to different peoples , i won't give a lot of tricks when some one only started (or else he will be wtf is that ? ), but i won't give a lot of trick if that person is godly (or else he will be OMFG i already know that ! )

EDIT 2
As i won't be able to come in during the weeks , i will only be able to do the CnC's during week end , so interllect will CnC some of yours during the week , and so i'll be able to finish them during the week end or something like that.

[Spook]

as u say it takes u quite long to do CNC i would understand if u only do 1 but if u do can u do top one and give some small tips for bottom 1 lol cheers

[Kanon]

First one , you got your focal ( sprite ) very well , but all the glowing effects around it make it a bit hard to know what it is , and you over sharpened it a bit , try using edit-fade sharpen after you sharpened a layer and to unsharpen it a bit.Then you have to blend in a bit , it's like vivid color ( like the tag should be ) but the background is all faded with dark color and all the C4D's are behind him , maybe if you use some colored C4D and blend it with your Focal , it would make your tag looks better , as the color scheme will be the same,Now if we talk about your lighting , it looks like you did it over your border layer ( just an impression ) so try to use a layer under your border layer , or move up your border layer to the top.For your lighting again , try not to use so much of the brush , try to use the side of it, so it only looks like a little blob instead of a big blob and then you can use filter-blur-directional blur and the side the lighting is going to , the give a nice lighting effect.Now about your background , with sprites , you can find some nice sprite background or you can smudge the background and then use your C4D for your effects, you can smudge buble C4D for effects.About your border , don't use an outerglow around , as it is very distracting and try to use black or darker color for your border since my eyes moves from the render to the border , which shouldn't be.The same with your text, move it closer to the render , as you only want one focal point , but in a focal point , for me , you can have 2 things , the text and the render/stock focal, so even if your text takes eyes from the focal , it will be at the same place as the focal so it won't distract anything , and usually , try taking colors that match your focal for your text.And about all that dark spaces , negative space, it gives a feel of depth , but try not to use that much , or else it will looks weird ( with a lighting over the negative space, it looks weirder ) so try to watch out about your lighting and negative space , i can also see you used a black soft brush in the sides , because it looks faded a bit , you did good use of it.And for text , a text will , most of the time , distract from the focal if you put it with the lighting source or with the negative space, so try to find a place closer to the render which will fit with it.Then for your faded colors on the back , try som gradients maps and color adjustment layers to make them more vivd , take care though to not over use your will and make it looks over contrasted or with weird colors.

Second one You blended it in but i do think in the colored version it weren't , because i can see the edge of the render very well , try using some splatter brush with clipping mask or smudge to blend in your character ( you can also use a C4D or erase with a soft brush , though the soft brush will give a weird look ) watch your sharpeness again , because the hairs are oversharpened, i can see pixels.ALso in your signature , all your things seems like behind your focal , try to bring some things in the same place of your focal or in face of your focal , maybe even up your focal so you can use them to blend your character in , it seems like you do your background with C4D , blur them and put a render over, that's a good start for your signature, now use C4D over your render ( without being over the head and neck and keeping a bit of the body so we don't get the floating head symptom )Your lighting to the top is fine , but try to do what i said with the lighting earlier in the other comment , then for the left down lighting , that one is wrong as you see shadow right beside it , which should be light parts , so watch out where you put your lighting , the lighting in the down right , should be more clear and used with the trick i said earlier , because you can see it is well placed but it need more brightness and lightness.in this signature, it would be good to put a smudged layer in the back to fill to negative space between all the C4D's and then you could use the SIDE of a 300 PX soft brush and brush the sides ( really small of it ) with a dark soft brush so we can feel some depth , then you can use some curve layers and contrast/brightness layer to adjust the lighting coming from your render.And i will give you a last tips about lighting you probably know it already , but try using the dodge and burn tool to amplify your lighting. just be sure not to over use them because they can scrap your colors if you use them too much at the same place.

[Jordan]

I have heard a lot , but I like you opinions, so:
It sucks, but I try.

[Strife]

This should be interesting.

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Strife

This should be interesting.

Don't you already get a lot of comment Lol.
Guess the day for today is done, i'll have to edit that after i done 2 sigs requests.

[CkChRIzZ]

well here's one:

and the thread:
Sing it!
so that you don't have to do any searching to make sure
I just want some actual criticism rather than "awesome tag d00d" sorta thing cuz i know it's really not

[Neo]

Kanon, major props from me if you continue doing this mate.

[mare.]

wow.
thats fucking crazy.
mad props man.

[Kanon]

Jordan :
It seems like you are experiencing with photoshop mainly , don't stop that and you can always try using more then a single filter on the same layer.

Now for the signature , i will start with the colors i don't know what that red line around the render is , maybe a cut that got missed or something , or from a filter that you used , so be sure to always tick and untick your layers to be sure there's no minor changement like i just said . then, you could try to lower to opacity and power of your gradient maps and of your photofilter , remember that you only want to ENCHANCE your image , and not change it completly, so remember only use gradient maps and photofilters for enchancing your image colors and depth , purple and orange set as soft light with reduced opacity give a nice color to your lighting , the blue/red/yellow ( or w/e order ) set as screen or softlight with reduced opacity also give nice colors to the whole signature , but other then that try only using colors form your own signature such as ( in this case ) Green and yellow , then play around with the blending mode and opacity/fill , many people don't work a lot with fill , but i do and i must say that is very useful for coloring signatures. you also seems to know where to place your lighting , so i won't say anything about that , just keep looking correctly where you put your lighting now for blending in , it seems like your render is blended in , but if you would have used some kind of effect or smudge to blend him in more , it could have helped, you can use soft brush or splatter brush or distorts filters for that. If we now going to talk about focal , you got your focal alright and all , but only for eye catching , try moving it a bit to the right or to the left from the center , this change nothing , but it always give a little something, and try to get more things around with your focal , all your things seems behind it , and very blurred , to get more depth effects , try blurring some object or item , and blurring the background even more , that way you could have multiple depths that will make your signatures looks even better ( like in your signature , i would sharpen the guy , blur the leaf and blur the background more then the leaf ) i sudgest you to put to leaf in from of the render ( like on his sweatshirt) so it can help you blending your focal in , and it will give more effect and depth with other leafs.the focal seems a bit blurry , so you can use sharpening like you want ( i normally use the sharpen filter and then i use edit-fade sharpen and i reduce it until i don't see any more pixels ) just be sure not to over sharpen your stuff , another thing would be try to put all your things , even your background , going to the same way . now you see leaf going up , but your background have horizontal will ( probably used liquify or smudge for that ) try making it having a little vertical will , without cutting your horizontal way of it ( like you start from down , go to the left and end at the top ) If you ever want to add a text , try taking a text that match your signature , and you can always add up something from the signature just beside it ( like you would write jordan and put a leaf just beside it ) and remember to put your text close to your focal , or else you will have distraction from the focal and it could be making your signatures less attractive sine your eyes moves to the focal and to the text , so if you have your text close to the focal , you can have it fancy and our eyes will stay in the same sig-zone as your focal , so it won't disturb.

Strife :
I must say that signature is very nice , but it seems rather low quality , try fixing it with some filters such as stylize-diffuse-last option and then filter-noise-noise supression and play around with the setting and reduce the layer opacity , then you can try using a high pass layer set as 35-45 and set it as hard light or soft light then reduce opacity,The composition is well done on it , but i think you need some work on the focal , since my eyes are going to the left alot and then coming back to the render , you could fix that by darkening a bit more the left side, and lighting up the right side , because you can see the lighting is coming from the top right , then the top right side should be lighter then the left side , you might also want to blend in the focal a bit more , since i can see the edges of it , you could blend it with many things , in that signature just a little splatter brush ( really not a lot ) could do the work , and then some gradient maps to blend in the colors a bit more and bam you have it , also try to watch your sharpness , i can see some over sharpened parts such on his shoulder and a bit on his head also it looks a bit grainy in your signature, try using a noise suppresion filter and use some more blur at the right of the signature and blur the left side a bit also ( blur the right side more then the left side, as it looks like the left side is closer to the focal ) also about your blending , it seems there's some green bubles at the left , why not try to copy that and use it over the should or arms to blend in your focal ? it could help you to keep the theme and everything.Try to watch your contrast too , it fit the signature this time , but if you over-contrast your lighting too much , it can hurt the eyes when watching at a clear white , if you have such a clear light on the guy , you should also have a clear white behind him at the right , which isn't , try to watch all the small lighting details in your signature , even the most little things can make your signature change a lot to the eyes of some people, that signature looks like the style which have their negative space in total black , so try using some parts of the black area such at the left of your focal , in black totally ( not the shadow ) to use more depths, if it don't work then keep it but reduce the opacity of the layer.Now it seems there,s a bit of lighting into his left arm , maybe just using the green bubles at his left and making them clearer , and then you use a green coloring layer on his arm , to make the lighting effect, could correct that lighting issue.And you probably know to use dodge and burn tool , well try using burn tool a bit more in some area of the render.

CkChRIzZ :
You have done a very nice lighting and fire effect , but the white is a bit over contrasted and the back of the guy also have a lot of white , so the lighting isn'T really working properly ,it is going over the left arm but the right arm is really dark and his face too , making it wrong a bit. try always using effects or things from the signature itself as lighting like you did , the lighting in the top behind the render isn't needed though , since it only make your signature lighting looks weird.You've done a lot of good effects , but try to get your depth too , all your signature looks really sharpened , the glasses and some parts of the guy looks over sharpened and the whole signature background looks sharpened and some parts even oversharpened , it's alright to have sharpened effects in your background , but try to keep them at a strict minimum , because like it is , you have small depth and double focal ( my eyes goes from the guy and to the right ... ) so try to blur some part and blur some parts even more ( only for more depth ) also about your coloring , the coloring on the guy .. i would say it's near to be perfect, but the background is monotone and don't fit with the render , try getting some more colors then a brown in the background ( that color is often due to over used gradient maps and cooling photofilter , so try to reduce the opacity of each photofilter and gradient maps to a maximum , keeping some color effects of course ).Also like i said for the text to most of other people , if you ever want to add texts , don't put it in negative or lighting source , and try to keep it close to the focal as possible and blending it with the whole signature ( using more then 1 font for the text , using fancy text , and adding things making the text blending in , suchs as some effect , objects or item from the tag , or some lines or even the colors of the letters.

Sorry that this one is small , but nothing more is needed for that sig i think o.o..

[Merch]

[CkChRIzZ]

lol.
it's the longest and most in-depth C&C i ever got...
thanks a lot.
really appreciate it

[Kanon]

merch i will be back at you tommorow^^
btw that animated thing in your sig , i though it was some kind of insects over my PC screen.

[Alexei]

Whoa, I'm amazed by this thread. Kanon, you're a GOD if you keep up with this.

[Ahlto]

The thread. I know it has two pages, but none of it was really C&C, and those 2-3 people who said something, kinda pointed out the same thing

This is interesting. Props from me too.