Editing your iris photo – what matters

A good iris image isn't created by filters, but by clean geometry, honest colours and preserved micro-structure.

Cut out, don't crop

Eyelid, lashes and sclera distract from the subject. The iris is therefore cut out in a circle so that no hard image edge and no leftover white of the eye remains visible in the final artwork.

Pupil centred, iris round

When photographed at an angle, the iris appears oval and the pupil off-centre. Before artistic processing, the geometry is checked and re-centred if necessary so the artwork looks calm and balanced.

Preserve colour, don't invent it

Brown irises in particular lose their pattern with too much saturation. A gentle correction of white balance and tone is more effective, keeping the actual colour layers visible.

Structure instead of sharpening artefacts

Excessive sharpening creates bright edges and noise. Micro-contrast at a medium detail level brings out the fibres much more naturally.

What you should do yourself

• • Choose the sharpest original photo
• • Don't apply filters, beauty modes or colour changes
• • Don't crop so tightly that the iris is cut off
• • Upload the file at full quality

Everything else – cutting out, centring, resolution and fine detail – is handled automatically by the processing.