Real Water Drops



This technique will teach you how to make Water drops, it will give some kind of real Water drops over any object.

1. Create a new file of size 560×400 px with 72 resolution and RGB color mode, don’t worry about the bg.

2. Pick Gradient tool gradient-tool and draw the gradient by using the #07cbfd and #0486aa colors:

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3. Now run the command Layer >> Layer Styles >> Inner Glow and give the following settings:

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you will get this result:

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4. Now create a new layer and then pick Brush Tool brush-tool and by using the following settings click on the middle part like shown below:

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5. Press Ctrl+T (transform) and reduce the width like shown below and press <Enter> key:

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6. Move this layer towards up so that you should see only the bottom part of this dot, now change the blending mode from Normal to Overlay from layer panel:

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7. Press Ctrl+J to duplicate this layer and reduce the size to 50%:

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8. Create a new layer and fill it with any color and then run the command Layer >> layer styles >> Gradient Overlay, pick any gradient of many colors like shown below and give the following settings:

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you will get something like this:

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9. Create a new layer and merge this gradient layer with it by selecting both and pressing Ctrl+E, now press Ctrl+Shift+U (Image >> Adjustment >> Hue/Desaturate) to remove the colors like:

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10. Run the command Filter >> Others >> High Pass and give the following settings:

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11. Press Ctrl+J 3 times and merge all these layers:

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12. From layer panel select blending option as Overlay instead of Normal:

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13. Now pick Brush Tool brush-tool and press F5 (Window >> Brushes command) give the following settings:

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14. Create new layer and click on different places randomly like shown below:

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15. Now run the command Layer >> Layer Styles >> Drop Shadow then Inner Shadow then Bevel & Emboss and give the following settings from their relevant boxes:

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16. Here is the result when you hit OK button:

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3 Responses to “Real Water Drops”

  1. this is very good tutorial

  2. Gr8…..

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