photo shop experts...
 

everyone that uses adobe photo shop is familiar with the gradient tool. how can i apply the gradient qualities to a whole layer. so as to say if i have two pic both on seperate layers but i want the top pic to fade away. how can i achieve this?

If i understand your question correctly, i think what you might want to try is apply the gradient as the layers mask.

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select the top layer, hold control and click it, now that layer is selected, use the gradient to fade it away.

good looking out