Well, a friend of mine was always into this(he still is), and he rented me his cd-rom with photoshop CS on it. So I decided to give it a try. That has been about 10 months ago or something like that. It got addictive and it was a nice hobby. =P
I wanted in kirbirs pants. nevermind the fact that I joined this site nearly a year before her in full seriousness though I had a friend who was into it and he got me started and eventually got me over here. since then he quit/bounced around and I've stayed here. I finally surpassed him(in graphic design) around 2 years ago. You should have seen my really early work though, it was quite mediocre.
Played DarkThrone, clans needed gfx stuff for forums so I looked into it! and thats how it got me here....
I saw other people making cool sigs at forums, etc. So I decided to give it a shot. Kind of got addicted to it, although I haven't done much in awhile. Just now getting back into it again.
I was asked to join the GFX league at a forum I used to be a member at so I downloaded photoshop and started messing around with some stuff and within my first match I won a championship
My mother bought a CD with Macromedia (perfectly legally *whistles innocently*) Fireworks on it, and PhotoShop was there too. I installed it, and was hooked, and now I've got to doing stuff like I'm doing now. It's just cool to see how much versatility and difference PhotoShop brings. ~ Astral
My friend was into it, but he only just started so he asked me if i wanted to too. I did, and I love it, even though i don't have enough for the actual program, i have to use the trial and then wait a while and use it again
When I discovered "Forums" about 3 years ago and noticed those little signatures. and then it all went from there.
This sounds really pathetic, but when i was like, 10 or 11 i was really into neopets.com. ROFL. Thank god i stopped playing that shiz like, 3 years ago. And i wanted to make my own lookups, and i found this site like 2 years ago and got hooked.