I absolutely agree, and I've done my share of experimenting with Force Lightning.
I'm curious as to the method as well. At a guess, I'm thinking it's a photo of real lightning with some fantastic trimming and blending. For someone who just started using Photoshop, it's damn impressive, and I look forward to seeing future images.
If anyone has a photo they want spruced up..let me know..i will see what I can do with it. But keeping with the site...let it be of your sideshow star wars figures.