Drawing Pills

1. Open a new image with any dimensions.

2. Locate your rectangle tool (below your Text button) - Hold down on the Rectangle button until you see a menu as below:

Once here, you will see a list of shapes to choose from. Select Rounded Rectangle Tool

3. As shown in the image above, locate the Radius edit box. change this so it reads Radius: 50 px.

Setting the radius determines how rounded the corners of our Rounded Rectangle will be.

4. With these options in place, click and drag on your blank document. Make a rounded rectangle any size you wish, but keeping it within the shape of a normal pill and not to slender. Colour is not an issue.

5. Once you have made your shape, move to your Layers window. You will see two layers; Background and Shape 1. Ctrl+Click on the layer Shape 1

Your cursor will change from a Pointing finger, to a Pointing finger with a square over top. Once you have ctrl+<p>Source: <a href="http://clickz.com/">clickz.com</</ the layer, the shape on your canvas will be selected.

6. Once your Pill shape has been selected, delete the layer Shape 1 but still keeping the shape selected on your canvas. Shape 1 as a layer will still appear, delete this layer also keeping the selected area.

7. Create a new layer. Fill the layer using your fill tool with Black (#000000)

Now with your ruler [Ctrl+R] ( * You will see rulers appear on the left and top side of your document)

Still keeping the shape selected, take the top ruler and drag it to the middle of your selection, it should shift to the exact middle.

Now taking the Left hand side ruler, drag it to the middle of the selected shape also.

8. With the shape still selected, take your Marquee tool

With your Rectangular Marquee tool selected, hold down your alt - Your curser will change from a crosshair to a crosshair with a minus towards the bottom.

Holding alt, from one side of your shape, Minus half of the shapes selected, like so:

9. With half the pill selected, hit Delete on your keypad. This will erase the selected half of your shape, but keep the shape selection.

Fill this half of the shape with a colour opposite to the other side, for example; if your unselected side was black, use a lighter colour and vice versa.

Once this is done, hit Ctrl+D to deselect your selection.

10. Now we add the layer style (Double click to the far left of the layer in your Layers window) This will bring up the Layer Style window.

Here's the settings to obtain a realistic pill effect:

QUOTE(Stroke)

Set the layer style Stroke to:
Size: 1 px
Position: Outside
Blend mode: Normal
Opacity: 80 %
Fill Type: Colour
Colour: #000000

If you wish to use this style again (to save you re-entering all the styles if you wish to do more pills, click:

New Style to the right of the Layer Style window, and name it.

Hit OK to set the layer style to our layer.

11. Success! Now all we have to do is Ctrl+T and resize our shape smaller, until the desired effect is acquired.

Alter your shape until it looks pill-like.

* To save re-doing to change your pill colour, make a new layer, deselect the background layer and hit shift+ctrl+E

Now hit Ctrl+U and mess with the Saturation and Hue sliders

Final Result: