Alyson Hannigan Icon Tutorial
How to go from this to 
I don't have the examples anymore, but the instructions are still there, so I'll leave this up
This is just showing a technique. Please dont copy it exactly
Crop your pic like this (PSD doesnt let you recreate this, so this wont be exact)
Next, duplicate the base, set it screen. duplicate it again, gaussian blur at 2.3 px, desaturate and set to soft light. Duplicate it again.
New Layer, and take this gradient
, and set it to soft light 73%.
New layer, then this gradient
set to colour 22%.
Next take this light texture
, made by me and set it to screen 100%.
Next, take this tiny text brush
, also by me, in white.
And youre done!
All things that werent credited here, are in my resource page. Its jsut hard to keep track of gradients.
I don't have the examples anymore, but the instructions are still there, so I'll leave this up
This is just showing a technique. Please dont copy it exactly
Crop your pic like this (PSD doesnt let you recreate this, so this wont be exact)
Next, duplicate the base, set it screen. duplicate it again, gaussian blur at 2.3 px, desaturate and set to soft light. Duplicate it again.
New Layer, and take this gradient
, and set it to soft light 73%.
New layer, then this gradient
set to colour 22%.
Next take this light texture
, made by me and set it to screen 100%.
Next, take this tiny text brush
, also by me, in white.
And youre done!
All things that werent credited here, are in my resource page. Its jsut hard to keep track of gradients.