Easy Icon Tutorial #1

Easy tutorial made in Adobe Photoshop CS but is also translatable.

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Other results are as followed:



1. Prepare base by cropping, sharpening, etc.
2. Once you have arrived with your base, duplicate it once.
3. Desaturate the duplicated layer and set the blending mode to "Soft Light" (Opacity - 100%)
          Your layers should be like this:
         
4. Make a new layer with a diagonal gradient from point-to-point, using #090D40 and #532553
          Or you can simply use this premade gradient:
         
5. Set the gradient layer to "Exclusion" (Opacity - 100%)
6. Place this texture (Credit - gender) above the gradient and set the blending mode to "Color Burn" (Opacity - 100%)
         
7.  Your final layers should look like this:
         

Hope this was easy for most of you. If not leave some comments, ill anwswer them ASAP.