Here is a nice little tutorial to show you how to electrify your images with lightning in Photoshop.
INGREDIENTS


by Colin Smith

• Gradients
  
• Difference Clouds
  
• Levels
  
• Hue/Saturation
  
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  Difficulty 4/10
  

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On a new layer, create a black to white gradient, diagonally from the top left, to the bottom right.

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Filters>Render>Differance Clouds

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Now invert the image. Cmd/Ctrl+I
You can start to see the lightning


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Adjust levels to bring out the lightning, Cmd/Ctrl+L.
In the levels box: slide the black arrow to the right and the middle one to the right too, until it looks nice and clean


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Now to add a bit of color:
Go to Hue/Saturation Cmd/Ctrl+U Click the colorize box and slide the Hue till you like the color.


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Now to add it to your image:
Just place the lightning on a layer above your image and change the layer blending mode to "screen". Here I duplicated the lightning layer 2x and rotated it a little.]