Carson Beckett icon tutorial

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How to go from
to




Open pic of Carson.

Coloring

*Crop to your liking and sharpen once.




*Copy layer, desaturate and set to hard light 75%.




*Put that gradient
on top, set to softlight.




*New filllayer #b08256 set to darken 50%.




*Duplicate color layer change mode to color burn 50%




*Duplicate background bring it on top and set to screen 100%.




*Duplicate screen layer and set to soft light 100%.




*Merge layers.

Textures

*Take that grainy texture
by toybirds  ... set to multiply 100%.




*Copy background, bring it on top to soft light 50%.




*Take this text
texture by cla22ire . Set to lighten 100%.
(Looks like this before. I hit ctrl+i to invert the colors and rotated 90° CW)

*And the last step. Take that fairy dust (lovely name, isn't it? :D) texture
by innocent_lexys .
Set to lighten 100%. Erase the parts on his face.

And that's it. :)