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[green_queen]

Icon tutorial for this kind of icon:



(yes, you can snag it if you credit me.)

First I took this picture:



I cropped it down so I had about half of his face in the frame, since I think that's what looks best with this style:



Then I did what I always do with every base; I duplicated the base twice. I set the first layer to screen and sharpened it, and set the second layer to soft light and sharpened it:



I thought that was too bright, so I lowered the opacity of the screened layer to 53:



This style works best with strong blacks, so I duplicated the background layer again, set the new layer to Soft Light, sharpened and desaturated:



Then I added this layer:

Exclusion, 100%

and got this:



Next I went to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Gradient Map. In your colour palette, there should be black on top and white on the bottom. I set the gradient map layer to Soft Light and got this:



Then I added this layer:

Hard Light, 36%

and got this:



Finally I took this light image:



and pasted it on top. I screened the layer and moved it around until I got:



Then I picked a colour from Dom's sunglasses and added this text layer, in Times New Roman:



(the & is a couple sizes bigger and I chose a colour from his skin for it.)

And tada! Finished product:



Green Queen