help please?

I joined a few days ago and havent posted yet because I've been looking through the communities memories to see if I could find what I was looking for, but I couldnt xx;

I have examples to show what I want to do.

I want to know how to do the effect on this icon:

and also the faded look on this one:

both are by thomas_riddle

I use psp7 if that helps any.

Thanks :D