Water Drops

Water Drops creates a wide variety of liquid shapes: spheres, spurts, spills, spots and more. You can select the color of the drops, make them pool together and distort underlying images as if they had been rained on.

Basic Tab

Drop Size

Controls the size of the liquid blobs. High values yield fewer, larger drops. Low values splatter the selection with small drops.

Coverage

Controls the percentage of the selection covered with liquid. You can select any value between 1 and 100 percent.

Left to right: Increasing Coverage.

Clumping

Creates gravity between the drops. At higher values the liquid pools together, forming large irregularly shaped blobs.

Left to right: Increasing Clumping.

Focus

Sharpens the edges of drops and boosts the brightness of the liquid color.

Left to right: Increasing Focus.

Refraction

Controls the amount that the selection is warped by the water drops. Higher values increase the distortion.

Opacity

Controls the transparency of the liquid. High values obscure any underlying images.

Tinting

Chooses the amount of Liquid Color revealed by light passing through the blobs. Low values show less of the liquid color.

Liquid Color

Choose any color for your water drops. For more information on selecting colors, see
Color Selection Tools.

Lighting Controls

Direction

Controls the direction from which the light falls on the drops. Click and drag within the lighting control box to change the direction, or enter a value between 0 and 360 degrees.

Inclination

Controls the angle formed by the light and the page. Click and drag within the lighting control box to change the inclination, or enter a value between 0 and 90 degrees.

Highlight Brightness

Controls the intensity of the shiny highlights appearing on the drops.

Highlight Size

Controls the size of the shiny highlights on areas facing the light; higher values yield larger highlights.

Highlight Color

Choose any color for the shiny highlights. For more information on selecting colors, see
Color Selection Tools.

Random Seed

Controls the random elements of this filter. Click it until you get a result you like.