from this
to this
1. Take your picture, resize it and crop. My original base was
this so I added a background with the same color of the background of the icon to fill the gap.
2. New curves layer:
RGB
point 1: 76 149
point 2: 168 216
red
point 1: 134 147
point 2: 197 208
green
point 1: 194 200
blue
point 1: 168 170
3. New selective color layer:
reds: -53 +10 +6 0
greens: +99 -80 -100 0
whites: +76 -38 +31 0
4. Set
this texture to darken.
5. Set
this texture by
innocent_lexys to overlay, 28% opacity.
6. Set
this texture by
candycrack19 to screen, 77% opacity.
7. New color balance layer:
midtones: -14 -7 +15
shadows: +14 +9 -9
highlights: -8 -1 +12
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