This is, I would say, definately beginner friendly.

Today, we`ll go from this to Image hosted by Photobucket.com.



1; You`ll obviously need to crop your image to your liking. After that is achieved, sharpen once. This`ll be our base.
Image hosted by Photobucket.com < BASE!!!

2; Duplicate the base & set it to overlay @ 100%. It should look very similar to :
Image hosted by Photobucket.com

3; Make a new colour fill [0B104F] & layer it at screen 100%.
Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Image hosted by Photobucket.com

4; Add the following light text & set it to screen @ 75%.
Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Image hosted by Photobucket.com

5; Another new colour layer fill [953907] on burn @ 26%.
Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Image hosted by Photobucket.com

6; Add the following texture layer on normal @ 37%.
Image hosted by Photobucket.com

7; Enjoy your new icon, which should look like :
Image hosted by Photobucket.com

If this is confusing in any way, I may`ve skipped something. I`ll fix it if I did, ASAP.

*** the textures used above were made by colorfilter. Sorry I couldn`t credit sooner!