well, you could do what I just suggested for squirrel, make a few shading layers, black ovals, blur them, turn the opacity down, then move them around, reshaping them with the distort tool until you get a feel for the lighting of the piece, and go in and shade for real, using your movable pieces as guides.
at least, you can do that in PS CS2.. no idea about psp..
I think he means the electrical kind. LightNING. not lightING. :P
hehehe, yup, electricitay. 
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Ok. so. in PSP, I have No idea, But, this works for Photoshop:
- new layer
- hit D to reset your pallette to Black foreground White background
- Filter -> Render -> Clouds
- Filter -> Render -> Difference clouds (cntrl+f until you get a nice 'bolt' of lightning.)
- lasso tool around your bolt.
- Select -> invert
- Select -> feather (probably 15-30 depending on the size)
- cntrl-x
- de-select (cntrl+d)
- Cntrl+I to invert colors (making the bolt white, don't bother if it is already)
- cntrl+j to duplicate the layer, repeat until then bolt is 'bright' enough for you. select all the layers you just made and cntrl+e to merge them
At this point, you can Lasso select and feather again to refine the selection of the bolt you want, Edit -> transform to distort, scale, lengthen, rotate, etc.
then image -> adjustments -> hue/saturation, check the 'colorize' box and move the slider scales to get the color you want. optionally blur if desire.
Rinse, repeat for other bolts.
Thats how I made the lightning bolts in TA's pic
For more cartoony bolts, I can do those too...
make a straight white line on a new layer, (vertical) box it up with the rectangle marqee, filter -> distort -> shear. Play with the curves. Filter -> distort -> wave, hit randomize until you get what you like. edit -> transform to adjust, rotate, etc. move it where you want, duplicate layer, on the copy layer, filter -> blur -> guassian blur about, eh , 2-4. merge the two layers, adjust hue/saturation to desired color.
Thats photoshop lightning off the top of my head.
if you want lightning like the text in the TA pic. thats playing with channels, and I dunno if PSP does that.
Examples
I forgot a step in the realistic, you need to play with the brightness (down) and contrast (up) a couple times to refine the 'main' bolt. don't be afraid to erase the parts you don't like.
The realistic one takes about , eh, 10 minutes, the carttoony one takes less than 1 minute.
edit: oh, in Photoshop you have layer styles for adding glows etc. you can do that if you like, but a second copied layer and a blur works just as good.
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Ok. so. in PSP, I have No idea, But, this works for Photoshop:
- new layer
- hit D to reset your pallette to Black foreground White background
- Filter -> Render -> Clouds
- Filter -> Render -> Difference clouds (cntrl+f until you get a nice 'bolt' of lightning.)
- lasso tool around your bolt.
- Select -> invert
- Select -> feather (probably 15-30 depending on the size)
- cntrl-x
- de-select (cntrl+d)
- Cntrl+I to invert colors (making the bolt white, don't bother if it is already)
- cntrl+j to duplicate the layer, repeat until then bolt is 'bright' enough for you. select all the layers you just made and cntrl+e to merge them
At this point, you can Lasso select and feather again to refine the selection of the bolt you want, Edit -> transform to distort, scale, lengthen, rotate, etc.
then image -> adjustments -> hue/saturation, check the 'colorize' box and move the slider scales to get the color you want. optionally blur if desire.
Rinse, repeat for other bolts.
Thats how I made the lightning bolts in TA's pic
For more cartoony bolts, I can do those too...
make a straight white line on a new layer, (vertical) box it up with the rectangle marqee, filter -> distort -> shear. Play with the curves. Filter -> distort -> wave, hit randomize until you get what you like. edit -> transform to adjust, rotate, etc. move it where you want, duplicate layer, on the copy layer, filter -> blur -> guassian blur about, eh , 2-4. merge the two layers, adjust hue/saturation to desired color...
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Good gravy! You really do all that for lightning? I do mine in 4 steps or so...
- Create a new layer
- Double-click the layer in the 'layers' palette to get the layer style menu.
- Click 'outer glow'. Set to a nice blue, purple, yellow... whatever color you want.
- Draw on your layer in white.
That's how I did my version of TA; TA vs AOT
Lol, snow...
Yeah, that's a little intense for my poor ol' PSP. I'll see what I can do though.
Thanks, guys!
yes, but I suck at drawing, so it never comes out very good.
and it really doesn't take me all that long to be honest. less time that it would take me to draw it manually and have equal results.
edit: took me about as long to type up the steps as it did to make the lightning. Admitedly, your method is better if you can, you know, draw. 
which I can't.
Does anybody have any lovely recommendations for making lightning, y'know, look like lightning?
I'm using retro paint shop pro...
Any recommendatinos would be great.
Thanks.
- SL