Originally Posted by Donald 
When you layer three images with soft light what opacity and fill %ages have you found acceptable. Alternately, after three images, sharpening, etc, do you brighten as an individual step? Thank you.
Thanks for reminding me. Please play with the "opacity" and "fill" sliders to garner the effect you are after. After that, I go in to "Shadow-Highlight" and compensate for the increase in contrast to bring out more of the shadow detail and reduce the highlights.
Ben