How can I cut out certain parts of text?

Question

This is the logo I have in mind:

I have been using white rectangles as blocs to hide the words like this:

However, when I merge the layers of text and white rectangles together, I am seeing something like this when I turn my background transparent:

It's very time consuming and laborous to manually delete those white spots in the final layer. If I change the color of the white rectangles to transparent then I am not seeing any "cutting" of the letters because it's transparent!!

Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Type out your text.

Make sure the type layer is selected and add a layer mask. You can find this in the layers panel (Window -> Layers if you don't see it). Select the square icon with the circle cutout in the middle.

Now use whatever tool you want to make a selection for the parts you want to hide.

I suggest using the pen tool (P) however you can use whichever selection tool you're used to using.

(If using the pen tool) Right click on the selection -> Make selection. Press OK on the next screen.

Now fill the selection with black using the brush tool (B) or fill tool (G).

Result

Answer 2

use a mask, you'd still have to do it manually, just means you can alter it afterwards of you wont like it, plus nothing white to hide