Is easy to apply any blending option for texts to gain shadows, to overlay effects over a background etc, but in many cases you need to make another alterations to the text with already done blending options.

For instance, if you want to delete a part of you object with its blending options, you will discover that the blending options will follow the new shape. Can you delete / alter the shadows, the bevels, strokes and whatever blending options you need to use? Yes, you can. Follow this short Adobe Photoshop tutorial to learn how to do it.

1. I am starting with a editable text what have few blending options  available. Is nice to can have such nice effects into an editable text field.

2. But, for more deep effects we need to do few steps. Click right on text layer from your layers panel, and click on “Group into New Smart Object”. This is one of most great addition starting with CS2. With smart objects, you can make multiple copies of a single object and all copies will be updated when one of the copies is edited (you can still apply layer styles and adjustment layers to the individual smart objects without affecting all copies). Pixel-based smart objects also remember their original size and can be transformed multiple times without loss.

3. Repeat the step, but click on  ”Rasterize layer” instead (you cannot fully handle a smart object which in our case)

4. Now, all your text blending effects can be changed in any way you need, using tools or filters, without to follow the original object / text shape, because now is no more effects there. Everything now become a single object at your wish.