Remember as a kid you played with a mirror, putting your face to the side of it and your friends were laughing at the funny symmetry of your face and your faces reflection?
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.
If you don't want others to use your photos and images without your permission, you can create a so called custom watermark with your name or any other text you want.
For a lot of fonts there is not an Italic type option available by default, but there is still a neat Faux Italic Photoshop option that can turn any font into an Italic type.