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Add Glow Effect

Add beautiful glow effects to images with customizable color, intensity, size, and style variations

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/image-add-glow' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/imageFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/image-add-glow' \
  -F 'imageFile=/path/to/file.ext' \
  -F 'glowStyle=soft' \
  -F 'glowColor=#00FFFF' \
  -F 'glowIntensity=0.8' \
  -F 'glowSize=20' \
  -F 'glowBlur=15' \
  -F 'glowSpread=1.2' \
  -F 'innerGlow=false' \
  -F 'backgroundColor=transparent' \
  -F 'outputFormat=png' \
  -F 'quality=90'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/image-add-glow

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
imageFile	fileupload required	Yes	Upload any image file to add glow effect to
glowStyle	select	Yes	Choose the style of glow effect
glowColor	color	No	Color of the glow effect
glowIntensity	number	No	Intensity of the glow (0.0 to 1.0)
glowSize	number	No	Size of the glow effect in pixels
glowBlur	number	No	Blur radius of the glow (higher = softer)
glowSpread	number	No	How much the glow spreads outward
innerGlow	checkbox	No	Add a glow effect inside the image edges
backgroundColor	color	No	Background color (leave empty for transparent)
outputFormat	select	No	Choose output format or keep original
quality	number	No	Output quality for lossy formats (WebP, JPEG)

File-type parameters must be uploaded first via POST /upload/image-add-glow, then the returned filePath is passed to the corresponding file field.

Response format

File result

JSON

{
  "filePath": "/public/processing/randomid.ext",
  "fileName": "output.ext",
  "contentType": "application/octet-stream",
  "size": 1024,
  "metadata": {
    "key": "value"
  },
  "error": "Error message (optional)",
  "message": "Notification message (optional)"
}

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-image-add-glow": {
      "name": "image-add-glow",
      "description": "Add beautiful glow effects to images with customizable color, intensity, size, and style variations",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=image-add-glow",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "image-add-glow",
    "arguments": {
  "imageFile": "https://example.com/file.ext",
  "glowStyle": "soft",
  "glowColor": "#00FFFF",
  "glowIntensity": 0.8,
  "glowSize": 20,
  "glowBlur": 15,
  "glowSpread": 1.2,
  "innerGlow": false,
  "backgroundColor": "transparent",
  "outputFormat": "png",
  "quality": 90
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

File parameters accept a public file URL only (https://…). Local paths, data: URIs, and Base64 strings are not supported.

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