Maybe not exactly 5, but it was pretty close. I remember I used a lot of Variations (which always helps me with the vibrant coloring, because I always get the colors I need and of course Vibrance, Levels and Contrast to get to that point. But it was pretty much nothing unusual.

Yeah, I know, but when I look at my icons and the only thing I see is vibrant colors :D I tried to play with text last year and most of the time I was quite happy with the text icons (others were completely failures of course) and I plan to stick with that, but lately I struggle very much with the text, maybe I need some new fonts, because this year I barely made text icons. Textures on the other hand are really tough for me and I really have to work on that :)