Glow effect in Stencyl

Any ideas how to achieve glow effect on an actor?
For example light yellow glow around some object(actor)?

I remember doing this with shadow filter in AS3. But of course flash has its own glow filter

Make the glow as a separate layer in Photoshop, export it as a transparent PNG file, put it on a layer under the actor with transparency set to less than 100%, make a behavior to have it exactly match the movement of the main actor?

Good trick! I will also check Eye Candy pack on Stencyl forge. Thanks