Achieve this affect in Photoshop 7
Start off with a plain white base. Take
this texture and paste in on your base setting it to 69% opacity.
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Next, take
this texture, desaturate it and paste it on your base. Set it to multiply at 100%
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Take
this texture and desaturate it. Paste it onto your image TWICE setting the first texture to screen and the second to color burn (both at 100% opacity)
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Now that we've got the main base image done, pick out the image you would like to use on your icon. Images with a light background work best. ^.^
Take your image/resize/crop/sharpen/desaturate if necessary and past it on your image. Set the layer to darken at 100%.
Next, I wanted to bring out the image more, so I created a blank layer under image layer, took a fuzzy brush with the color #BABABA and
drew underneath my pic.
Lastly (this step is optional) I wanted to brighten the image a bit, so I created a selective coloring layer with these settings:
WHITES: 0 // 0 // 0 // -74
BLACKS: 0 // 0 // 0 // 3
And we're done! Comments are appreciated!
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