Soft and Glowing Effect

Soft Glowing Lion

Imagemagick lets you manipulate your image in a variety of ways, for instance adding nice and soft glow.

Note: This tutorial can be used only on brighter background.

Take the following clipart.

Lion Clipart
Source:clker.com

Creating a transparent Background: 

Go to view tab.

At the paint properties,put 10000 in the  fuzz box and then

Method= Floodfill

Paint Type-Matte

Fill Color= none

Now place the cursor over the white background and right click on your mouse. CAUTION: Do not Place the Cursor over the Image itself.

Repeat this few times until you have a completely transparent background.  

 Save the image as gif or png format.

Next on Effect, type 59x59 in the slot, 

click on the spread button and then blur.

You should see something like this.

Glowing Background

Upload the image,  composite- over. Go to effect,input 0x.6, and click blur Composite the image using  multiply. Finally press Enhance and click normalize button. 

You can also use overlay instead of multiply. Choice is yours.

Save the file as png.

Here is another sample of the above tute.

Soft Glowing Apple