For 99% of the "Can you do X in Blender?" The answer is YES.
But it's not easy. Blender is now on the scale of top tier apps like Maya and 3DS. Blender does things right from the DL that require expensive plugin's on the others already expensive apps, and the only cost is the download time and the learning curve.

Something you have to deal with in any 3D App.

As far as "How do I do X?" I've found it difficult to NOT find the answer on YouTube.

If you're just not getting one tutorial, try another and eventually some one will already have explained it the way you need it.

I've done limited glowing in Poser by setting the ambient color. I don't render any work in Poser since Blender's Cycle renderer is faster.

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