Made in PSP7 should be easy to translate in other versions

Going from THIS
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WARNING: IMAGE HEAVY

Right so we shall beging....."
Were going to make a similar icon like this just with a different picture Image hosted by Photobucket.com

Im using THIS
picture of the lovley Angelina Jolie.

1. Open you image, first were going to crop her eye like so Image hosted by Photobucket.com. Then crop it to 100 x 80 Duplicate it Effects>>Sharpen and Unsharpen Mask set it to screen then Layers>>Merge>>Merge(all flatten) and add a black border Image hosted by Photobucket.com
2. Now with the same image we are going to crop it and resize to 100 x 100 Image hosted by Photobucket.com
3. Now were going to add some textures to our 100 x100 picture.

I'm using this Image hosted by Photobucket.com texture by graphicjunkie Set it to Hard Light Opacity 75 and you should get this Image hosted by Photobucket.com I made a new layer and added a brush by _joni Image hosted by Photobucket.com and set it to soft light Opacity 100

3. Now re-open you eye and click Edit>>Copy and Paste it on to you 100 x 100 base and it should look like this.Image hosted by Photobucket.com

Now were going to add anthoer texture by graphicjunkie Image hosted by Photobucket.com and set it to Hard Light opacity 75
Create anthor Layer, I added this Image hosted by Photobucket.com brush made by chouchoune then i created anthor layer and added this brush Image hosted by Photobucket.com and set it to soft light merge all layers add a border and hey presto :)