494 Weaving tendrils of lightning into a cloud

- In this movie, I'm going to show you how to blend…these tendrils of lightning along with this cloud…in the background in order to create…this integrated composite.…We're going to do so without selecting…or masking a darn thing.…It's all a matter of advanced blending…in the form of the luminance exclusion sliders,…along with the Blend If option…inside the Layer Style dialogue box.…We're going to take two swings at this.…I'm going to turn the lightning layer back on…and I'm going to make a copy of this image…by going up to the Image menu…and choosing the Duplicate command.…

I'll just go ahead and call this guy Composite Blend…and click OK.…Now the first step is to drop out…the moderately dark stuff and keep the bright stuff.…The easiest way to do that is to change the blend mode…in the upper left corner of the layers panel to Screen.…Which you can also do, by the way,…when one of the selection tools is active…by pressing Shift + Alt + S here in the PC,…or Shift + Option + S on the Mac.…That works pretty well, but we have a ton…