You don't need an expensive software program to create it, either. Using the free image-editing application GIMP you can create custom text and outline it with a border in the color of your choice.

Deforming Text in GIMP. You have many options for ways to distort text using GIMP. Most of the effects you can apply to objects in an image file can also be applied to text, using the Layer and ...

You can add an Outline or a Border to your Text in GIMP by following this easy trick. You can create outlined text or transparent text with outline.

How to Create a 3D Photo Effect in GIMP Although the instructions in this step-by-step tutorial are for the GIMP for Windows, you can accomplish this same effect in other image editing software.

This was made using a 3D rendering script for The Gimp. The process is not entirely automatic, but it won’t take too long to mask off the outlines for different depth layers.