I bring a tutorial.

This is my first time writing a tutorial. Today we will be making this icon:

Warning: This is graphic intensive.

This was made with Photoshop CS, although I'm completely positive it'd
work in Photoshop 7, because I only just got CS and don't know all the
new functions.

First we start out with a lovely cap (I
don't remember where from... sorry!) of the siblings from A Series of Unfortunate Events.
I cropped and resized it.

The next two steps:

1) Filter-->Sharpen.

2) Adjustments-->Levels

Now your icon should look like this:

Next I used a lovely gradient by

crumblingwalls, on
overlay with 74% opacity.

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Now that looks a little overbright, so I added the good ol' dark blue
(#404264) exclusion layer at 84%

Now the original image looks a little washed out, so I duplicated the
original layer and set it to soft light at 65%. Now your icon should
look like this:

It's a nice and subtle coloring but I like it. I looked at it a bit and
decided it was still kind of boring, so I added a brush soft light, on
100%(I credit all the places I download brushes from on my icon journal
but I've no idea where each individual one comes from. If anyone knows
please tell me so I can credit!). The color I picked from a random spot
in the sky on the image using the eyedropper tool, and it happened to
be #D1C4A2.

Then I added yet another brush, an old paper one this time, (again, if
anyone knows where it's from please tell me), using Multiply at 100%,
with the color #ECDEB8,

All these effects are really subtle but it's the little things that
makes an icon pretty!

Now for text. Since there wasn't a lot of space I added the word FAMILY
in 8 pt font, Times New Roman, with100 spacing between letters, and in
color #FCF6E0 on the upper left corner.