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Written by Ray Silcox   
Sunday, 01 October 2006
Pill Shaped Text
Create some very cool buttons for your website layouts. I recommend you make them smaller and they will look really cool.

- Click here to see the video version of this tutorial.

- Open a 500 x 500 pixels sized PSD document.

- Grab the rounded rectangular tool (alt). And apply the following settings on the top:

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- Now, make a pretty big large pill shape like below:

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- If you are wondering what does the radius does, it dictates how round the rectangle edges will be :).

- From the Layers Palette, double click on the red marked area and change the color to whatever you want. For this tutorial I chose, (#33ccff).

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- If the non red rectangle of above image looks like yours, then click on that grey shape and you will see a grey border appearing. You know what I will just how you a screenshot... your shape 2 layer should look this:

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- Grab the rectangular tool (alt). And select the highlighted item on the top shown below:

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- Now, make a selection like this on your shape:

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- Select the path selection tool (alt). And click combine from top:


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- Grab the rectangular tool (alt). And select the highlighted item from the top:

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- Now make a selection like this on your shape:

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- Select the path selection tool (alt). This time go to edit Copy, and then paste. Now move the pasted selection and position it like below:

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- Now select the path selection tool (alt). And click combine from top:

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- If for some reason it doesn't delete at the same time, just do it again to cut it twice.

- Now apply some effects on the shape, write text to make it more professional.

- This is what my final result looks like:

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