Changing text color based on underlying layer

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Jerry Crosby
Apr 22, 2004
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I’m pretty much a total novice with PS, probably an embarrassment to most of you, but here goes…

Say I have a green square shape in a layer. I’ve also created a line of text that is the same color. When I position a portion of the line of text over the square, of course that text melds with the square color and can’t be seen. How can I have it become, say, white? I don’t want to just change the color of the specific letters over the square, because the underlying shape may (someday) be irregular and bisect the middle of a letter.

Hope that’s understandable. If someone could point me in the right direction, I’d appreciate it.

Jerry
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Odysseus
Apr 23, 2004
In article <OqYhc.5550$>,
"Jerry Crosby" wrote:

Say I have a green square shape in a layer. I’ve also created a line of text that is the same color. When I position a portion of the line of text over the square, of course that text melds with the square color and can’t be seen. How can I have it become, say, white? I don’t want to just change the color of the specific letters over the square, because the underlying shape may (someday) be irregular and bisect the middle of a letter.
There may be an easier way than this, but I’d make a duplicate of the text layer and put it underneath the green square, turn the upper version white (or use the Color Overlay effect to make it appear white while still ‘remembering’ its original colour), then make a clipping group including both upper layers. Once that’s done the white text should only appear where the square’s layer isn’t transparent, thus showing the green text underneath.

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