Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Blending Sliders

The Blending sliders allow you to quickly make areas of a layer transparent, based on how bright or dark the image appears. You'll find the Blending sliders by double-clicking in the empty space to the right of the name of a layer. (This will open the Layer Style dialog box.) The Blending sliders are at the bottom of the Layer Style dialog box (Figure 15.12). The first thing you'll notice is that there are two sets of sliders. One is labeled “This Layer” and the other is labeled “Underlying Layer.” The slider called This Layer will make areas of the active layer disappear. The slider labeled Underlying Layer deals with all the layers underneath the layer that was double-clicked. This slider will make parts of the underlying image ...