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Made using Photoshop CS3 Extended. So not translatable to other programs.

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1. Open your base. Do all the jazz you normally do to prepare your base.

2. Make a new fill layer and flood with 764300 and set to Exclusion 50%.

3. Now duplicate your base and drag to the top. Set it to Softlight 40%

4.Now the find stuff! Go Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance and in put all this. Make sure Preserve Luminosity is ticked.
Shadows -28 -29 +13
Midtones +28 -25 -21
Highlights -12 +14 +4

5. Go Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves
RGB
Input:6
Output:236
Set this Layer to Softlight 60%

6.Everyone's favorite Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color
REDS
Cyan +11
Magenta +59
Yellow +100
Black 0

YELLOWS
Cyan +100
Magenta -64
Yellow -65
Black 0

NEUTRALS
Cyan +12
Magenta +12
Yellow +15
Black -11

7. Now go Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Exposure
Exposure +0.43
Offset 0.0000
Gamma Correction 0.93

8. Last step. Selective Coloring.
REDS
Cyan -14
Magenta +27
Yellow +11
Black +100

And you’re done!

Other examples:

I used the same coloring on these icons here