Layer Masking Problem

[Jamie Guvna Jeffery]

The image above is some text with various blending options applied ... well a part of it.

I have applied and outerglow and a drop shadow to the text. But, I want that gap to be filled with white and to have no drop shadow as you can see.

How can I achieve that? I assume with some sort of masking? I want to ensure the text can be resized so rasterizing and painting that area white is not an option.

Thanks for any advise.

[iDad]

create a new duplicate layer, same blending options, erase the area on the top layer to remove the effects . shut off the effects on top layer, thats one way if that's understandable

[hawkeye]

Layer-Layer Style-Create Layer. That will put the drop shadow is on it's own layer, then you can erase or mask out the parts you don't want.

[Jamie Guvna Jeffery]

Layer-Layer Style-Create Layer. That will put the drop shadow is on it's own layer, then you can erase or mask out the parts you don't want.

That becomes problematic when I want to resize the logo because the blending options are now rasterized.