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Hi everyone

I'm new here, and not very experienced with photoshop (though I can do most things I need to do). I tried searching this, but could only find pages talking about how to delete hidden layers...

I have made a logo which is white and red on a black background. I need to make the background invisible so that it can be used on a different coloured shirt. Unfortunately, I wasn't anticipating this during the designing process and I have a lot of messy black areas on multiple layers that aren't visible when the background is black, but show up when it is removed. It isn't ideal to use the wand or eraser to delete these areas (but that's the backup plan).

What I want to do seems simple, but I cant work it out

I set the logo layers (with the black parts I want to remove and white parts I want to keep) to 'Lighten', which makes all the parts I don't want invisible (even on, say, a yellow background) until I actually remove the background. Can I make what that layer looks like in 'Lighten' mode, the way it actually looks with the layer set as 'Normal' so I can then delete the background without the black bits reappearing?

Hope that made sense... Thanks for any help!