AEA MMContourScroller can be used in any applet to enhance the look of the scrolling effect. In this it uses an image and traces it borders using an image filtering technique. It then scrolls the text along the border of the image. It creates the contour removing a distinguishable color and setting a filter threshold factor. Transparent GIF89 images will be the best bet instead. It also supports a background image, customizable font type, font size and font style, different text color and background color etc. | 
