Lightning Animated Signature HELP!

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[b] </font> </font>Hello to whomever reads this, or responds to it. /emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif My girlfriend is doing a signature for someone, and she needs to know how to animate the lightning so that instead of those quill pen animated signatures you see it would be animated lightning instead. I hope someone knows what I'm talking about because I don't have any way of showing you what I mean.

To add more to this so that maybe someone will know what I'm talking about more..

The lightning bolt would have to write out the name of the person that wants the signature, like say the name is 'James' the lightning bolt needs to write that out instead of a quill pen that people normally use for these animated signatures. My girlfriend also has Paintshop Pro 7 and 8, plus she has Banner Maker Pro the newest version of it. If that helps anymore about it, then there you go for whomever helps, or reads this.

What is the best thing to use to animate graphics with? Something that would be easy to use. I have heard Adobe is the best, but the dang price tag for that is just too much.

Sorry for posting this twice here, but I just didn't know where to put it since I'm new to these forum thingies. [b] /emoticons/ibf-iamstupid.gif

[Ryan8720]

Photoshop has many built in features for lighting. As far as animation, I would say that Flash is the best to use.

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Thanks alot, Ryan. /emoticons/specool.gif