[reformedman]

In photoshop, in the layers window, click on the eyes to the left of each of the layers that have to do with the letters of the title until it disappears. Notice that clicking on some of the eyes, will get rid of a lot of the connected layers, you don't want that. Just click on the specific eyes that you don't want and it will maintain the gradient background.

To get rid of the image on the icon, look for the sub-layer called gears2. you can click on that layer and then go to layers > delete layer.