Inspiration on amazon tab / capsule design

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Hi Guys, I'm working a design up for a client who has a pharmacy and was wanting to be clever in merging traditional and more modern pharmacuetical methods.

Have nicley blended in a mortor and pessle that I found in one of the stock libraires.

Found a very good concept that someone was using as for tabbed buttons and thought this would work well if made to look a little more like a pill/capsule:

http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/clients/nlhc/design12k.php

Can anyone give ideas/inspiration of who best to work this capsule type effect in to the design, I was playing around with the elipse tool last night and going nowhere fast.

Thanks,
ww

[Red Kittie Kat]

to make a good capsule effect I usually have to draw a circle and duplicate it then a rectangle. Using the elipse tool you will just get a funky oval.


This shows how I take the circle and rectangle to get a nice capsule ...then merge them and ... usually all the same color .. but I have the contrast to show you how I do it.

[web-widget]

to make a good capsule effect...

Meow, thanks kitty kat, will try that later on and see how well I can get it to merge in to whats there

[Red Kittie Kat]

Kewl :) Would love to see your results ;)

[web-widget]

ok, this is where I got to:

http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/clients/nlhc/design13c.php

The whole design series is here:
http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/clients/nlhc/

Was quite fortunate as I found a cute tool after a few goes in :rolleyes: Fireworks :rolleyes: called a chamfer rectangle which basically let me draw a rectangle and adjust the edges to be completly half circle, saved flatting layers and its always a nuiscance to try ad reapply effects / colour changes to a bitmap, so quite happy that I can tweak my vectored shape.

Any comments, have a review with the client tomorrow, if anything I'm expecting maybe a colour change but hoping to get my web slice tool a go after that.

Thanks,
ww

[billy_d_goat]

Looks cool. Good luck!

[web-widget]

Thanks for the encouragment dude, & ur first post too :-) welcome to the board
ww

[chris_bcn]

It ight be my eyes, but I find the colour combination, or maybe the hues to be difficult to view - I wouldn't want to look at that site for any length of time

[web-widget]

Eventually got this web site finished

http://www.newlifehealthcare.co.uk/

any comments?

[Psygon]

When you have links over the blue background I'd change the hover over colour from red. Although you only see it for a fraction of a second I still think it's quite a harsh contrast...

[mushroomcloudwarrior]

Out of sheer curiosity (i'm a beginner)

How did you manage to get the custom shape for the header?

I think the design looks extremely good..i just don't like some of the font selection, maybe that's just me.

[web-widget]

How did you manage to get the custom shape for the header?
I used the rectangle fill option in FireWorks.

After drawing a rectangle, change the fill options, in this case to Waves, then play with the colours.
By moving the pattern about I got the desired shape.
I then placed a cut out a curve to give the white space for displaying text / products on. The white curve was very difficult for me to do, tried to reproduce it using bezier curves on the pen tool but in the end used a layer from the original template I based the site on:
http://www.4templates.com/view/website-templates/4/AX0239BL


Thanks, HTH,
W