Well, I once again won at severalplums @ LJ and this is my tutorial for the winning icon. It was actually due last weekend and was posted there at the time... I just didn't have enough time to post it elsewhere until today.
The icon was made in Photoshop CS3 and uses Levels, Curves and Brightness/Contrast layers.
I won Mod's Invitation severalplums@LJ and as per community rules, wrote a tutorial for my winning icon. I'm using Photoshop 7 and for this specific icon I used the adjustment layers Color Balance, Curves and Brightness/Contrast as well as the filter "Find Edges".