How do I make two layers blend into each other?

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Jul 24, 2005
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Can someone tell me how I can make two layers blend into each other? I’m really new to Photoshop and am a bit lost.

Any help/pointers would be aprpeciated.

Thanks.

OM
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Jul 24, 2005
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Can someone tell me how I can make two layers blend into each other? I’m really new to Photoshop and am a bit lost.

Any help/pointers would be aprpeciated.

Thanks.

OM

Each layer has a pull-down menu on the layer palette to assign a blending mode to that layer. As there are a number of modes, you’ll need to experiment to see which mode is right for your project.
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Stewy
Jul 24, 2005
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Can someone tell me how I can make two layers blend into each other? I’m really new to Photoshop and am a bit lost.

Any help/pointers would be aprpeciated.

Thanks.

OM

Make sure the two layers you want to merge are at the top of the stack and the topmost layer is selected (drag them there) Go to the Layer menu click Merge Down and the top two layers will merge. Click again and the next one down will merge etc

What you’re doing here is flattening two layers together. If you make a mistake, Click Window – History to undo these actions.

If you want to keep an unmerged copy, before you start click Image – Duplicate and work on the copy.

Hope this helps
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Dave
Jul 24, 2005
I’m really new to Photoshop and am a bit lost.

OM

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OM
Jul 24, 2005
Thanks for the reply.
But that’s not what I want.
(I think you answered my question, it’s just that my question wasn’t clear enough.)

I want to have two layers blend into each other.
i.e. the edge of one fade into the other like in a gradient effect. I think that explains it better.

Do you understand? 🙂
Apologise if I’m not being clear!

Also… it’s important for me to have my layers in layers and not have them be flattened if possible.

Thanks.

Make sure the two layers you want to merge are at the top of the stack and the topmost layer is selected (drag them there) Go to the Layer menu click Merge Down and the top two layers will merge. Click again and the next one down will merge etc

What you’re doing here is flattening two layers together. If you make a mistake, Click Window – History to undo these actions.

If you want to keep an unmerged copy, before you start click Image – Duplicate and work on the copy.
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Bj
Jul 24, 2005
If I understand you right, this problem shouldn’t be hard to solve. But before I try to, let me say, that I’m using the German version of Photoshop CS, so I hope I can make myself being understood in English.

You have a file with two layers. One is overlapping the others with 100 percent coverage. First create a new channel. Then click into the new channel and fill it with the gradient tool, using the the two colors black and white. After that, leftclick on the channel, activate the RGB-Channels at the channel-menu and change to the layer-menu. Here must first mark the second layer, then reverse the choice by pressing Shift+Strg+I. Then delete the choice. Now you have an gradient crossing between the two layers. If you aren’t satisfied with the result, you can also try to change the alpha-channel with the brush-tool. To see and change the picture after you’ve done that, follow the upper way.

Hope you can understand my a little bit broken English. If there are questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

Greetings

Bj
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