Text Coloring

Ok, I'm totally stumped by this.
I've got a black and white photo and a paragraph of text in a layer over the photo.
The text is currently black, but of course when it hits the sections of the photo that are black, you can't see the text. So, I need to get the text to switch to being white at those point. I know I could probably just go in a change it at the proper points, but I don't wanna do that! It's a lot of text and it's a script font so parts of the letter fall at different points in the picture. We thought using the exclusion layer style would work, but it doesn't. Anybody have any suggestions?
This is driving me crazy!

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yea, just give it a thin white stroke. it will become busy but it will be readable. or give i a slight white outer glow.

use a layer mask and apply a fill or even better a gradient? i think the mask will work well.

You can make a black text layer, then duplicate that layer, and change it to white text. So now you have each text layer right on top of each other.


Lets say you have the black text layer on top. Select that layer and with the erasier tool just erase the text where it is dark on the image blow it, and behold the white text will appear.