Recently, I made this poster for a small Belgian music festival.

For the “Jachtival” type, I used a simple but effective technique to simulate 3D-text, wich I’ll explain to you because it’s fast and I use it for a lot of things (not only for text, it works with boxes as well).

Read on:

1. Write your text (T). I choose the “AllStar” font, a free download on
DaFont.com, because you can see through it, wich makes for a nice effect.
The color you start with, is not the final color of your text, but instead the
color of the 3D-part, the depth actually. Therefore, I took gray as color.

2. Now, click edit>transform>skew and drag the right part up, until you get
something like this.

3. Hold “alt” and hit the “right” and then “down” arrow of your keyboard.
Keep holding alt and repeat the right-down part many times, while you see the
3D-effect getting shape. By holding the alt-key, Photoshop copies the layer and then you drag it one pixel to the right and one pixel down.

4. To give your text the desired color, change only the text color of the upper layer.

5. I finished the effect by copying the white text layer, flipping it vertical (edit>transform>flip vertical), then rasterizing it with layer>rasterize>type and then edit>transform>distort and dragging the corners into a realistic looking position.

Finished result:

Have fun!