There are a few good tutorials to go through if you click on the "Poser Forum" banner above. A lot of the sites offering free stuff and merchandise has various tutorials as well, look through the "webring top 15" further down the page. A good way is to hang around here and other Poser related sites. There are always questions coming up in this forum on how to do all kinds of things with Poser, and it will inspire you to try it yourself. Otherwise, trial and error is always a way... Poser is fun, give it a spin every now and then, and you will discover new possibilities along the way. Try to set up simple scenes using the content provided with Poser 5. Doesn't look the way you expected? Delete the awful Poser default lights, add a few spotlights and work a little with the lighting, it does wonders to any scene! Still no good? Work with the poses... Or download some freebies and add to the scene. Take a look in the material room if you can improve the material settings or add new textures on some props... Pretty soon you'll discover the amazing possibilities that this software has to offer. Have fun!