Creating a water drop effect

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This method of creating drops of water can be applied to just about any photo or graphic. I made this beveled wall tile
pattern for another tutorial. Here we're going to learn one way to distort sections of the image so it resembles drops
of water on the surface. I've already made several "water drops" as you can see. We're going to work on one for that empty spot in the lower middle portion. 2.Using the elliptical marquee tool(with the Shift Key held down), I start by drawing a circle selection over the area I want the droplet to be. I copy and paste the selection so the work we do will be on layers above the original image. 3.
The 3-D effec...