Photoshop Tutorials: Photoshop Advanced Blending - Blend If

Step 1: Open Your Image In Photoshop And Add Some Text

Go ahead and open your image in Photoshop, then press the letter T on your keyboard to quickly access the Type tool, choose your font and font size in the Options bar at the top of the screen and add some text above your image. I've already gone ahead and done that here, as we can see in my Layers palette:

I've added "PHOTOSHOP WUZ HERE!" (yes I know, I purposely spelled it wrong because I'm crazy like that), as we can see in the image below:

Step 2: Access Photoshop's Blending Options

We need to access Photoshop's Blending Options next, and there's a couple of different ways to do that. We could go up to the Layer menu at the top of the screen, select Layer Style and then select Blending Options, but there's a faster way. With the type layer selected in the Layers palette, click on the Add Layer Style icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:

We're not going to select any of the standard layer styles like Drop Shadow or Stroke here. Instead, we want the option at the very top of the list, Blending Options. Click on it to select it:

This brings up the Layer Style dialog box set to the Blending Options, and the "Blend If" sliders we're looking for are at the very bottom: