Tutorial #1

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First of all, most of this tutorial is inspired by one that _chokeanddie made. But since chosenxone requested a tutorial on this icon, I decided to create this tutorial for her.

First step for all my icons are screen layers. For this specific icon I screened it 6 times and on the 6th screen layer I added a new adjustment layer for hue/saturation/lightness and did -20 on saturation:



Next step is Layer->New Adjustment Layer->Selective Color:

Reds:
Cyan: -100
Yellow: +100

Yellows:
Cyan: -100
Yellow: +100

Greens:
Magenta: +100
Yellow: +100
Black: +100



Now make another Layer->New Adjustment Layer->Selective Color Layer:

Yellows:
Cyan: +40
Majenta: -40
Yellow: -100
Black: +30

Neutrals:
Cyan: +18
Yellow: -11
Black: -8



Then merge all layers. Then duplicate the current layer and set the layer to multiply, opacity of 18:



Then I add this texture, set to screen:



Then I added this texture (from _excentric_) at the top of the icon:



And finally I added this floral brush (from inxsomniax) around Buffy:



And tada!:



If you have any questions, I'll try my best to answer them. And feel free to comment with your results :)