Achieving greater control with Blend If

In this exercise, I am going to show you how to work with that Blend If Option,…that's located just above the slider bars.…What it does is, it allows you to employ the slider bars based on the contents…of specific color channels, which gives you more control over what you're doing,…but it's little hard to wrap your mind around the results.…I will walk you through it here.…The idea let's say, is that I'm pretty happy with what I've been able to achieve…here in this file that I'm now calling Electric storm.psd.…However, I can't did get beyond the fact that we've got these kind of sort of…peach colored halos around each one of the lighting bolts.…

It's great that they're nice and fuzzy.…But why are they peach colored?…Except for the fact, they're coming out of kind of a peachy cloud that just…doesn't really make that much sense.…What I prefer to do is create a cleaner effect like this one here, where the…lighting bolts are more colored neutral.…I can do that with a little bit of more work, using that Blend If option.…