In this tutorial, you'll take the picture from this to this:
Open the picture you want to work with. If you want it icon sized, it should be 100 by 100 pixels. :]
I'm using a photo of a toy sundae.
Go to Image- Adjust- Levels. Type a 2 for the second box and press ok.
Step 3
Duplicate the layer, and change the second layer's blending style to Overlay.
Step 4
Make a new layer and fill it with #FF00FF. Change the blending mode to Color Dodge and lower the opacity to 30%.
Step 5
Make another new layer, change your color to white, and draw a single white spot in the upper left corner using a soft brush size 200 (or around there). Change the blending mode to Overlay. Save your icon and you're done!
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