Not that much work ...I just made 9 separate empty layers and hand-drew one position of the spark on each of them. It took about 10 minutes to draw them.
On this, I used a photo of lightning in 'screen' mode, and flipped it.
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On this, I used a photo of lightning in 'screen' mode, and flipped it.