Making Things Light-Up. Making Things Light-Up. You should have at least a basic understanding of Photoshop for this tutorial. This tutorial covers some technique for creating little glow and sparkly stuff.
Glows are very easy to simulate.
All that is really needed is some sort of gradient from a light color to the background. They both must be on the same layer for this to work properly. Click on OK when done. Again experiment with the settings. If your a control freak this can be done manually by creating and using another layer on top of it.