Icon Tutorial
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In Photoshop CS4
1. Crop your image, resize, etc etc
2. Duplicate and set the new layer to OVERLAY (100%)
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3. Take this texture by phaantasia and set to LIGHTEN (100%). Mine was a bit pale, so added a bit of contrast to the layer.
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4. Create a new Selective Colour adjustment layer and enter in these values:
and you will get:
Tada!