If you look around there are a lot of ready made poses all made up. I find them very helpful to use one to get the basic pose that I want and then I can adjust a foor or a hand or even rotate the head. You might need to read a little more about collisions in the manual expecially when posing children. I also find that a lot of poses for a specific character will work on other Cr2's. Like V3 poses seem to work on SP3. My free stuff for Poser 2,3,4, also work well on Poser5 ect. I have even done my own hair within Poser 5 but I am also always looking for an easier way. I only did it one time and then figured out it is a lot easier to use a ready made or just use hair brushes in PS or PSP. Hope this helps some. I am not an old pro at this stuff either.