I've been working with Poser for about the last couple of years. When I first started, I was so overwhelmed that all I did was manage to twist Dork's head around like on The Exorcist, at which point I put Poser away for about six months. When I opened it back up, I was determined to learn it. Somehow I managed to find Renderosity and Daz, which lead to other sites. Slowly, by reading others' posts and asking questions, I figured out enough to make a basic scene. I then got brave, got UV Mapper and found tutorials on doing textures. I'm not a fabulous texture maker, but I'm good enough to do some basic stuff, and getting better.

I still don't know a lot about lights, so I use premade lighting; I'm not very good with posing, so I use a lot of premade poses too. I've even recently delved into modeling. It's something that takes a lot of patience and practice. I can make a few basic things and am getting a better understanding of that too.

My point is that even though I have gone through a huge learning curve and taken a few years to figure out what I do know, I think the actual process of figuring all of this out has made me understand it all better. Yeah, it would be nice if there were an easier, faster way to do some of this, but I don't mind the way it is now - it's confusing, but once the light goes on, then there is no stopping you. I'm mediocre at it at best, but I am "having fun", and since it's just a hobby to me, that's the important part.