OKay, good question!
I started out playing Spades on Yahoo and joined a Spades league. I later became a tournament Director. During that time, I ran into other tourney directors and noticed how cool their sites were. I wondered how the heck they did it.
I got good at spades and mastered the ends of outs of how to put on tournaments and decided to start my own spades league. It was then that I learned about graphics because I had to design my own site.
I ran into a girl named Carol that ran a pool league and she was kind enough to first teach me the basics of html and how to incorporate images on a web page.
We became good friends and she gave me my first graphic editor, Paint Shop Pro 7 with animation. Not only did I design myself an awesome site, I started getting requests from other admin to do their sites as well.
After that, I met a hacker that made yahoo booters and he gave me my first cracked version of photoshop to design an interface for him (which was a little over a year ago). I've been messing around with photoshop ever since.
(I didn't do a spellcheck..so ya, know!)