a tutorial for this icon:



-get your base, duplicate once, and set to soft light, merge down. You should have something like this:

-new layer, exclusion, 46, dark green:

now, all the gradiesnt I'm using are by crumblingwalls


color dodge,38


color burn, 77


overlay, 55


screen, 94


color burn, 100


color burn, 54


color, 30


color burn, 28

copy the base and paste on top of everything, set to soft light.

a text brush which I got from the great ohpaintbrush

normal, white

now I wrote a huge "&" georgia, 60pt, soft light and placed it where I wanted. now you should have something like this:


I liked it a lot, but there was something missing.. so I added a light texture by teh_indy

set to screen and now you have this:


PLEASE do not copy this tutorial exactly, just use the tips, use different gradients and modes, different opacities, that's what makes it such fun:)