Look around and you'll see lots of trends in the world of design: trendy colors, trendy website looks, and trendy fonts, to name a few. One of the "hot" looks in Photoshop-processed photos is the "gritty" look one that brings out tons of details, almost to the point of being overdone.

Step 1. Create a new document, apply a Layer Style on the background layer. Add a Gradient Overlay and a Pattern Overlay.
Step 2. Here I've used an icon I found on a cool site, but you can use whatever you want.

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