How did you get started in GFX?

[.Insane.]

Originally Posted by Leonidas

How did you get started in graphics design?

I was at a forum about a game, and decided to get myself a "UserBar"... Later on I asked the guy who made it for me, how he made it. He recommended photoshop, and I...Got it. I'm not very good, but I am SO glad my brother told me about the game.

[Radi-Kale]

well my story is almost same as many of you,joining forums and seeing nice pics in signatures and wondering how they where made and got me photoshop and started fiddling.but after a car crash i got dissabled and had to find me a way to get in the work process again because deu to my dissability i couldnt do my other job anymore so i started to look around at what i would like to do to earn me some money.since then using photoshop became more serious and is starting to grow to proportions that i can live from some projects i did/do(like flyer design and simple photo manips).but my heart still is with siggie design because that has a freedom in creativity that is endless and the learning process is limitless because every day new tutorials are turning up with new ways to expand and refine the designing possibilities.

[yswrox]

Originally Posted by Brook

I joined a forum. I wanted a tag and also I had alwasy been intruiged by Photoshop...

Yup me too.
It was like everyone could make such cool tags and my was like ms paint standard so I decided to learn to make cool tags too.

[.Insane.]

Originally Posted by yswrox

Yup me too.
I my was like ms paint standard...

About that...

I thought paint was the coolest. xD I was thinking an airbrush and stuff like that was the way to go. Then I found photoshop, as I said before.

[ShadowsFall]

I started out when I was on a forum and I saw some real good Sig's so I decided to start trying to make my own, I started out with Gimp but it sucked so I got Photoshop CS2. Now im just trying to improve on my work.

[PHPGator]

I wanted to build a better looking website than those that you can get from a cookie-cutter hosting place like angelfire or tripod. After my first attempt at making a beautiful design with nothing but basic HTML ... I went to HTML tables... then to graphics to improve my design some more.

That led to me learning more about photoshop and design in general was simply my interest in websites.

[iruldaworld]

I was interested in the way people made their signatures. So I learned designing . So this was the way I started to come into the designing world.

[ZombieNemesis]

I found a site called MadeMotor & seen the cool stuff that the designer was making, and got started from there.

[Vegas Underground]

Wow. Mines different than alot of yours. I had to learn graphics actually for wrestling. I was going to be taking over Poster and web design for a local indy fed so I was told I had better start learning a few tricks. The guy I was replacing took me away from PaintShop Pro and welcomed me to Adobe Photoshop. I never touched a forum for a few months when I started, hell I was oblivious to Web Graphics Sites then. All I knew before the aid of online forum members were basic effects, text effects via a photoshop plugin called Eye Candy lol.

I got my start in Graphic Design Forums at The Anarchy Forums hosted of Evolution Graphics. I learned ALOT there, and met alot of great people.

That was a few years ago now...The -A- is long since died and most of its members given up on Graphics Design and or cannot be found anymore...

Now I sign up on forums here and there, and I hold copyright to the name Vegas Underground, so alot has changed..

[Dystopia]

Forums, everyone had cools sigs but me so I was zealous =]