A great and simple way to create the letterpress like effect using Photoshop. Basically all you need to do is to apply different layer styles to text or object, let me show you how.
A bit longer Photoshop tutorial, but still very suitable for beginners, where you will learn how to carve a random text into human skin from scratch and make it look realistic.
If you are mostly using only one resample image option when resizing images, then you can change the default option to the option you are using the most.