Ready for a new tutorial? Learn how to make this icon of Carrie Underwood:  using this pic: Cut! 

This was made in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, but it is translatable to PSP (I don't know about Gimp!). This tutorial is kinda lengthy, but it's worth it in the end!

Step 1: Open up your base, sharpen it, and resize it to 100x100.
Step 2: Duplicate your base, and set it to "screen" 100% opacity. Depending on how light your base already is, you may either have to lower the opacity or skip this step.
Step 3: Time for some coloring! Make a new layer  (layer: new: layer or layer: new fill layer: solid color) and type this color code in:  031649 (a darker shade of navy blue). Set this layer to "exlcusion" 100% opacity.
Step 4: Make a new layer, set it to "multiply" 53% opacity, and fill the layer with this color: fce4d6 (a light peach shade)
Step 5: I wanted to try to bring out some blue in the pic, so I made another new layer, filled it with 319180 (a darker shade of greenish blue), and set this layer to "soft light" 100% opacity.
Step 6: Next, take your base, duplicate it,  bring it up to the top, and set this layer to "screen" 100% opacity.
Step 7: I wanted to play around with the hue/saturation, so I did this: layer: new adjustment layer: hue/saturation. Leave the blend mode and opacity alone, we just want to play with the color. This is how I did my colors:
Master: Hue: -7 Saturation: +10 Lightness: 0
Reds: Hue: -7 Saturation: -4 Lightness: -1
Yellows: Hue: +7 Saturation: +21 Lightness: +8
Greens: Hue: +16 Saturation: +19 Lightness: +8
Cyans: Hue: -8 Saturation: +29 Lightness: -20
Blues: Hue: +2 Saturation: -14 Lightness: +6
Magentas: Hue: -6 Saturation: -4 Lightness: +5

^Be sure to play around with the levels on this one!

Step 8: Duplicate your base, bring it to the top, set it to "soft light" 100% opacity.
Step 9: I decided I wanted to add some color burn to Carrie, so I made a new layer, filled it with 599ffe (a darker shade of sky blue), and set this layer to "color burn" 100% opacity.
Step 10: Duplicate your last layer (the color burn layer), leave the blending mode at "color burn" but lower your opacity to 30%.

That's it! Make sure you play around with your opacities and colors! Comments are appreciated, and please, friend me if you like this tutorial!

Other icons made with this tutorial:       

Just to let y'all know, you can request tutorials from me starting now! I'm gonna start saving my icons as .psd so that way if someone wants a tutorial on a certain icon, I can easily pull up how I did it and not guess!

Don't ya just love my icon tutorials? ;) LOL! In my newest tutorial, learn how to make this icon of Kellie Pickler:  using this pic: Kellie Pickler

Made in: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Translatable: Yes!
Level of difficulty: Easy!

Step 1: Get yor pic ready! We crop the pic, resize it to 100x100, and sharpen it. You know how that goes! :)
Step 2: Duplicate your base and set it to screen 46% opacity.  My pic was already light so I set the opacity to a lower level, but if you use a darker image, it's a good idea to increase your opacity.
Step 3: Make a new layer, fill it with this dark blue: 1d2844, and set it to exclusion 100% opacity.
Step 4: Make a new layer, fill it with a darker peach color:  fec495, and set this layer to overlay 41% opacity. I didn't want Kellie to look real orange so that's why the opacity is low on this one!
Step 5: Make a new layer, fill it with e16464 (a watermelon red), and set the layer to soft light 53% opacity.
Step 6: Make a new layer, fill it with bbc4fc (a darker blue but not too dark!) and set this layer to color burn 100% opacity.
Step 7: Duplicate your base, bring it to the top, and set it to overlay 100% opacity.
Step 8: Duplicate your base 1 more time, bring it to the top, desaturate it (control shift U in Photoshop), and set it to soft light 100% opacity.
Step 9: Add a new brightness/contrast layer (layer: new adjustment layer: brightness/contrast) and set the contrast to +9. Leave the brightness alone.
Step 10: Last step! Make a new layer, fill it with a fair shade of peach (I used ffedd8), and set this layer to multiply 39% opacity.

Other icons made with this technique:  and

That's it! Add text or brushes if you want! I decided the icons looked nice enough without text or brushes, so after I did the coloring I left them alone! :) Did you like this? Friend me! Comments would be nice! ;)