Here's my Fourth tutorial!! I'm really proud of myself. :)
It goes a little something like this:
to this:
Made in Paint Shop Pro.
Uses Color Balance
Completely Translatable
In 3 Easy Steps.
1.) Crop your base. Do not sharpen.
2.) Create a new Hue/Saturation Layer. Set the Saturation to +44
3.) Create a New Color Balance Layer. Match your settings to mine:
Midtones: -6 / 80 / 38
Shadows: 12 / 0 / 39
Highlights: -10 / -40 / -55
4.) Create a new Raster Layer and flood fill it with #d1fa50. Set this layer to Soft Light at about 40%.
And you're done!
Remember to play around with the settings on your icon. Not all images have the same result.
Here are some other examples: