My first tutorial
My first tutorial, it's very easy to follow.
We will go from 
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I use Adobe Photoshop 7.0 but can be done with other programs
1. Choose your pic and crop/resize it to 100x100.
2. Sharpen once and duplicated your base twice. Put the middle one to Screen @ 50% opacity and the top one to Soft Light @ 100% opacity.
3. Merge your layers.
4. Take this gadient (by ? if you know who made it please tell me and I will credit them) ,paste it as a new layer and put it on Soft Light @ 80% opacity
5. Another gradient (by ? if you know who made it please tell me and I will credit them) ,paste it as a new layer and put it on Soft Light @ 50% opacity This is what the icon looks like this far.
6. I wanted to added something to cover up the background. I took this lighttexture (by 
fightstarr) and flipped it until I liked it. Put it to lighten @ 50% opacity.
7. Duplicate the lighttexture layer and leave the settings as they are.
8. And for the final touch I took this borderbrush (by ? if you know who made it please tell me and I will credit them)
Final icon:
And you're done!
I love to see what you made. If you want to use the icon, please credit me. Please comment on this tut, so I can learn from it :-)