Now grab your circular marquee t

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Now grab your circular marquee tool. Create a selection like this and bring up your color picker.

Choose a light green color (notice the theme).

Now create a new layer with the new layer icon.

You are now going to fill this layer (again with any of the methods). Here you can see I am using the Edit: Fill command and from here you can choose foreground color. Now you have filled the selection on the new layer with the color you have chosen.

The next step is also easy. Just drag that layer to the new layer icon to duplicate it as shown. Do this a total of two times. Select one of the new layers in the layers palette and with the move tool (V) on hold down the Shift key to drag the copy straight down leaving a small space between the first shape. Select the other copy in the layers palette and drag it beneath the second one to the bottom as shown.

Now you are going to selection each of the two new layers separately (one at a time). Ctrl or Cmd click on the layer icon to ‘select’ it as shown. Now simply bring up the color picker and choose a slightly lighter shade of green, press OK and then Edit: Fill...or Alt/Opt Backspace to ‘fill’ that shape with the new color.

It is important that you have the shape selected otherwise your color fill will spread across the entire layer and covering any layer beneath it in the layers palette. Change the color of the other layer even lighter by using the same method.

Now get your ‘T’ Type tool and create some appropriate text, sizing it down to fit ‘within’ the area of an icon.