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Welcome to the small howto tutorial:
So yeah, lets start.
Something like that:
I have made a little icon with it, but only a speeddraw, however, it isn't that bad I think.
Fullsize:
(Yes actually the re-colouring did that, I made contrast higher. But that doesn't matter)
Small Version:
How to make a good glow effect.
I use GIMP. (You can choose whatever you want)
So yeah, lets start.
Step 1:
Create a new image with the size of 512*512px.
Something like that:

Step 2:
Select the smooth brush and select any color you want.

Step 3:
Select the smooth brush and select any color you want.

Step 4:
Select another color and overdraw it a bit.

Step 5:
Do the same again in the middle.

Step 6:
Smudge it.

Step 7:
Select the burn tool

Step 8:
Create some lightning from the middle out of the image.

Step 9:
Overdraw those with bigger brush size.

Step 10:
Smudge those as well.

Step 11?!:
Recolour the glow.

I have made a little icon with it, but only a speeddraw, however, it isn't that bad I think.
Fullsize:

(Yes actually the re-colouring did that, I made contrast higher. But that doesn't matter)
Small Version:
