Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland #19 - Luminance Blending

Deke calls this one of Photoshop's "uber geek" features that once you discover you will use all the time. In this tutorial he shows you how to use Luminance Blending sliders to blend images in a smooth way, solving some problems of jagged and rough edges when stacking multiple layers on top of each other.

Buried deep inside the Layer Style dialog box are two slider bars, This Layer and Underlying Layer, that let you blend pixels according to their brightness. Despite their prosaic names, these sliders rank among the most powerful features in all of Photoshop.