Graphic design help...

[Scarpozzi]

I'm trying to come up with a cartoon-like graphic for a telescoping baton. This is a project I'm doing for a friend, so it's not a school project or a business thing. Can anyone that's good with photoshop, fireworks, or a paint program help me out? I'm no artist, but this is what I've come up with. I'm trying to make it with a transparent background so it can overlay a website.

This is what I have so far...I just don't think it looks that good. The actual image I created was transparent background with a white border so it would show up with 2 colors when over a background. (White edges and a black center)Pic

Thanks to anyone that can help...

 

[ThePresence]

You just want a graphic like that with a transparent background?

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
You just want a graphic like that with a transparent background?

Yeah....I'm just lacking skills to make it look professional and neither I, nor my friend have a budget to pay a designer to do it or even buy decent software. (I might have an old copy of PhotoShop 3.x somewhere in my old cds.)

 

[purbeast0]

How come it's so blurry?

Also in photoshop, you can create a new project w/a transparent background. make sure you save it as a .gif to keep the transparency.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
How come it's so blurry?

Also in photoshop, you can create a new project w/a transparent background. make sure you save it as a .gif to keep the transparency.

I was trying to go for a cartoon-like edge. It's a fade on the edges of the white border....I'm not partial to the design...just need an image of a baton that doesn't look like it was drawn by a 3rd grader in MS Paint.