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Step 14. Finally I decided to break up the plain look of the highlight by adding a final overlaid shape.

Clone the white highlight object and give it a fractal plasma transparency. Resolution was 244 dpi and fractal scale of 30%. Start transparency was 6.5% and end 100% - with a profile setting of -0.08 in the top box of the profile menu and -0.8 in the bottom. All this profile setting does is to reduce the amount of fractal shapes (top box setting) and harden the fractal shapes' outline (bottom setting). Lastly, I moved this shape up by 4 pixels and increased the feather to 6 pixels.

The actual highlights on real water are often much more complex but this is just a simple way (well fairly simple!) of breaking up the highlight edges a little.
That's the main tutorial, if you want to reduce the dark bottom edge definition then reduce the bottom linear transparency setting on the bevel and so on. Remembering because the objects are overlaid transparencies, increasing the darkness on the clipview object that is the shadow for example will also increase the shading on the bottom of the droplet. There are below some more optional steps and tweeking, if you would like to include them. You'll find them on the next page.

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