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Create a new Photoshop document 25x19 pixels in size, fill the background with #0D8DEA

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Create a new layer and set your foreground color to #89D177, Zoom in all the way (1600%) and use the circular marquee tool to make a selection like below And use the paintbucket tool to fill it with your foreground color, you might have to click twice to make the color more 'solid'

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Now your going to do about the same thing again, make a selection like below and fill it with the color #89D177.

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Now pull out the rectangular marquee tool, make a selection like below and fill it with the same green color

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Next select your 'head' layer and apply the following to layer styles to it.

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Right click on the head layer, select 'Copy layer style' then right click on the body layer and select 'paste layer style'.

That should produce:

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Now for the arms, create a new layer that is above both your head and your body layer, Zoom back in and set your foreground color to #397829 pull out the pencil tool with the width set to 1 pixel and draw three pixels like below on the bottom left hand side of the icon.

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Now draw two vertical lines like below, the colors are also specified in the image

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Press ctrl+j to duplicate the arm layer, then go to Edit > Transfrom > Flip horizantal, then use the move tool to move the icon to the right hand side of the icon.

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That's it for this tutorial I hope you liked it.