I'm guilty of some serious Ryan love so...
We'll be going from
to
in very few [6] steps!
1. Aquire your base. =)
It's sooooo dark and it's hard to tell who it is!
2. Duplicate and set the layer to Screen.
See how much better that is? [Wow.......]
3. Take this gradient
and set the layer to Overlay at 100%, baby!
4. Take this gradient
and set it to Saturation.
5. Take this texture
and set it to Overlay.
6. Take this light texture (I know that some of you guys are horrible against LTs, and I apologize...but I like this one!)
and set it to Screen.
7. Add text/brushes/your own thing and VOILA! You have a great icon!
Please don't copy this tutorial exactly! =)