>>>

Steps: 7 (+1 Optional)
Skill Level: Beginner
PSD Included: Yes

{PSD LINK}

ImagePrep: Crop base to 100 x 100 pixels. Then sharpen/ Blur to your liking.

Steps:

1. Start with your base Picture

2. Duplicate your base layer and set the blendmode to "Screen" It should look bright like this

3. Create a new layer and flood fill with the colour "0a0d33" Then set the blendmode to "Exclusion" It should now look like this

4. Create a new layer and flood fill with the colour "d2e5f7" Then set the blendmode to "Color burn" It should now look like this

5. Create a new Selective Colour layer:

Reds:

-100
+18
+100
-4

Yellows:

-12
+69
+21
-9

Greens:

+4
-100
-100
+100

Cyans:

-7
0
0
0

Blues:

-48
0
0
0

It should now look like this

6. Create a new Photofilter layer:

"Warming Filter (85)" >> "Color" >> "25%" It should now look like this

7. Create a new Brightness/Contrast layer:

Brightness: 0
Contrast: +40

It should now look like this

8. Create a new layer and paste in {THIS} Texture mask by crazydelight on Deviantart(?) The texture has been horizontally rotated by me already. Then set the blendmode to Darken (This allows the icon to be seen through the white parts)

And your result should be: this

Congrats you have completed the Icon Tutorial! (Side note: Results may vary so have a play around with the layers ;D)

Other results: