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No, it's not 'Art' . But the 'Art 'section is the only one where I can load up seven separate images. I'm not in the mood for writing up instructions …

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No, it's not 'Art' . But the 'Art 'section is the only one where I can load up seven separate images. I'm not in the mood for writing up instructions (even brief ones!), so I just thought I'd post a couple of screenshots of a really easy way I've just found to create a DIY iris texture. All done in GIMP 2.8

Hopefully the pictures appear in the correct order (Darn! The last two images appear the wrong way round! But no matter).

Also hopefully the process is easy enough to follow without any words - but if anything's not clear post a query in the comments. If anybody's interested in more detail I might do a proper write-up at some time...   :D

 

P.S. You can use any of these images however you want.

 

Oh what the heck!

- Start with a black square and draw freehand vertical lines all over the bottom 3/4 of it (3rd image)

- Make the bottom 3/4 seamless (2nd image)

- Make the bottom 3/4 fade nicely at the top and bottom (4th image)

- Convert to polar cordinates - Filters > Distort > Polar, using default settings (5th image)

- Use what you've created as a layer mask, and do a radial blend fill with a nice gradient (7th image). I found that also using the iWarp 'Move' on the result of the fill is nice)

-Cut-and-paste and resize the result to fit into the iris/pupil part of the eye template for whatever figure you want  (6th image) « Less