In this tutorial, you will learn to create a nice looking water drop icon. Final output of the water drop icon can be seen below :
Start by create this circle with ellipse tool :
Add these layer styles in it :
Image, after apply above layer styles :
Create another circle with ellipse tool. This time change the foreground color to #28738A.
Apply gradient overlay as shown:
Create a new layer. Draw a circle with elliptical marquee tool. Fill the selection with white to black using linear gradient -
Change the blending mode to screen :
Use high feathered eraser and erase most of the middle part as shown :
Press control+j to duplicate the layer and rotate it to -180 degree. After that draw this water drop shape with autoshapes. Use #649AC0 color as foreground color while drawing the shape :
Add these layer styles in it :
Finally, draw two white color shapes with ellipse tool. Our water drop icon is ready :)




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