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Sorry for my laziness but I just needed to take some time off to find my muse, perhaps. And now I'm coming back with a tutorial =))

How to make
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So first of all you crop your base and if you need do Auto Color or Auto Levels to make your base look more .. warm, perhaps. In my case I did Auto Color because as you see the original picture is a bit brighter for my taste.
After the auto color the real coloring begans:

1. Curves:
RGB:
point1: input: 33
output: 44
point2: input: 151
output: 118
point3: input: 186
output: 189

2. Now we'll use a Fill Layer with dark brown, something like #270202 set to Exclusion. I left the opacity to 100% but you can change it according to your picture.

3. It's time for my favourite Selective Color Layer:

Reds:
c: -30
m: 25
y: 50
b: 20

Cyans:
c: -49

Neutrals:
b:5

If your icon looks too red, you can reduse either the opacity of the whole layer or only the amount of the REDS section.

4. Now I use a Color Balance layer:

Midtones: -26; 0; -33
Shadows: 33; -6; -16
Highlights: 0; 0; 0

Set its opacity to 60%

Now use whatever textures or text you want and your done =))
Here is my result:



And some other results(but with small changes in the opacity percents in some layers because they were too red):





It's not as cool as I thought to be, but I hope you will like it =)