Blend two images in CS4

Hi, after taking two images of a landscape, one exposed for the foreground and another exposed for the sky. How do I open them each in a seperate layer so I can blend the two together. Giving me a correctly exposed image of foreground and sky. I dont want to do HDR just blend two images. I use CS4.
I should mention I use Aperture to manage my images and edit with CS4 by migrating the image from within Aperture....Many thanks for any help......Gerry

Thanks for replying
When I open two images in CS4 then try to drag one of them into the other document, it just opens up the second image as a new seperate background...I can switch between the two, but theyre seperate. I'd like to open the second image in the same layer as the first so I can brush the correctly exposed sky onto the overexposed sky.
Iv'e only used CS4 for editing images in the past so I am new to this technique of blending. My issue is I dont know how to open the two images I want to merge / blend ? so I can brush away the unwanted parts of the image....revealing the parts of the correctly exposed sky that I want to keep...
A pointer to a tutorial would be appreciated...
Hope I'm explaining myself ok
Thenks ...Gerry

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