Remove text but keep its stroke effect

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floobaloo
Oct 13, 2003
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Hey all,

I want to do something in Photoshop (6.0) which I can imagine will be easy but I just can’t figue out how!

I have a background (layer name ‘Strobe’) and a text block (text size 100, colour white, font Romeo, layer name ‘Floobaloo’) with a stroke effect (size 20, orange colour) on the text layer. What I want to do is remove the white colour of the text to leave just the orange stroke, and the background showing through where the white text was.

I have tried rendering the text layer and then just erasing the white out; this just leaves pure orange text, I have also tried magic selecting the text and then deleting it; this has the same effect.

I can supply screengrabs if you want.

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Floobaloo.co.uk

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Colin_Walls
Oct 13, 2003
Here’s my solution after a quick play. It is imperfect and was done on PS 7, so I don’t know how good it’ll be for you.

I used the magic wand to select the text itself and deleted. However, this took out the stroke layer style too. So, I created an empty layer under the [rasterised] text layer and did a Merge Down. This incorporated the layer style as pixels and now the magic wand and delete works.
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Colin_Walls
Oct 13, 2003
Or, better:

Change the blending mode of the text layer to Color Dodge. This means you still have vector text which can be changed.
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Betty_Compagnoni
Oct 13, 2003
Hello, tried to open the layer style dialog box and in the advanced blending section to turn-off the fill opacity to 0%? It should retains the stroke. Hope it works.. bye
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floobaloo
Oct 13, 2003
Thanks Colin, changing the blending mode to colour dodge works perfectly!

Thanks,

Floobaloo.co.uk
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barry_gray
Oct 13, 2003
Easier yet is set fill opacity to 0%
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Oct 13, 2003
Fill Opacity is located also on the Layer Palette, and doesn´t affect effects (unless set).
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Photo_Help
Oct 13, 2003
Keep in mind that Fill Opacity was not an option in Photoshop 6.0 leaving the blending mode as a suitable solution in this case (As Long as the text color is black).
MV
Mathias_Vejerslev
Oct 13, 2003
We´ll keep that in mind.
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Cheesefood
Oct 13, 2003
Or render the type, make a selection, contract by X amount of pixels, select inverse and delete.
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Photo_Help
Oct 13, 2003
Mathias,

It is kind of important to note since floobaloo made the post and most people ignored the fact that Photoshop 6.0 is being used.
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barry_gray
Oct 13, 2003
Photo Help-
Fill opacity is indeed available in PS 6 in the layer style dialog box under blending options
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Betty_Compagnoni
Oct 13, 2003
Yes it is..
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Oct 13, 2003
Yes in the layer style dialog.

I was the one that said check Layers Palette without noticing the question regarded PS6. I am sloppy. Forgive me.
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Photo_Help
Oct 13, 2003
barry,

Right you are, I always forget it is also on the layer styles. It isn’t available on the layers pallet though.
BG
barry_gray
Oct 13, 2003
Photo-
I had to dig out my old CIAB 6 to find it, I had forgotten too.

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