Blending in Edges

HI,
I'm new to Photoshop and am trying the following. I have Adobe CS3 and created the following in Photoshop.
I created 3 layers. text, Image and white, but originally I opened an image with Photoshop and renamed the background layer to image
On the text layer I created a title of some place
On the Image layer I created a mask and then ran a gradient horizontal (from left to right) for about 3/4 of the canvas.
Now what I want to do is blend in the right side of the edge so that the white layer will show through as it is on the left side due to the gradient.
I'm not sure how to so this. Any help will be appreaciated.
Thanks
Steve

Hi Noel,
That worked for me, it was exactly what I wnated to do.
Thank You
Steve

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why is elements better at photomerge than CC- CC does not appear to automatically fill image based on content but elements does when merging a panorama. Also the stitching is visable in CC but almost perfect in elements- why?
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I'll give it my best shot anyway.
Few folks in this forum are really familiar with Elements, for which there's a dedicated, totally separate forum.
Different engineering teams, also.
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Without being at your computer and without looking at your images, I couldn't even begin to speculate what you are doing wrong in Photoshop, which I suspect you are. The least you could show is post examples from your panoramas that have gone wrong.
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