How to blend 2 different exposures?

I made two identical photos with widely differing exposures to encompass extreme contrast. I now want to merge or blend them together so that everything is visible.
The Luminous Landscape at http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml has a tutorial that is spot on but I can't figure out how to make it work in Elements 3.
The author has a method called The Painted Mask where the initial instruction to "use Layer/ADd Layer Mask/Hide All" command for PS but I can't figure out how to translate that for Elements 3.
Can anyone help?

Jack,
Place the light and dark exposures on two layers, the dark on the bottom and
light on top. Place an adjustment layer (Levels will do fine) between the
two layers. You do not have to do anything with the adjustment layer, when
it opens, just click OK. Now group the light layer with the adjustment
layer. Click on the Layer Mask Thumbnail of the adjustment layer and start
painting with a black brush. That will expose the lower (dark) layer. To
correct any wrong painting you can paint over with white. In this example I
have painted black in the center of the image for the demonstration.
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1i7NdNFE0qI7RkNhwrFF8lTp2MrSC1
Juergen

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