how to create waterdrops

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Dear community,

This is a how-to question,

I need to be able to create realistic dew/waterdrops on an image I have of a beverage. Since my company forgot to ask the photographer to spray water on the bottle before shooting the product.
Is there an easy way to create realistic water drops? I have searched around the net, and most tutorials i find are really outdated and complex.

Thanks in advance.

[Mylenium]

Well, you answered your own question. There's nothing simple about creating realistic droplets. Water is transparent, after all, and the shape defined by refraction and reflection. Re-creating this simply requires a lot of displacement effects and things like bevel layer styles.

Mylenium 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

It might also be possible to clip and color-adjust drops from an existing photograph/stock-image – if one manages to find one with similar lighting and size.