belladaz1955 I'm pretty new myself and the nice folks here have been really quite helpful. Let me tell you what has been helping me. Even though the manual is pretty useless over all it did help me learn what things are called. So do work through it and explore all the palettes, menus, etc. and learn what they are called. Most of the tutorials will say things like go the "hair room," but if you don't know what that is you will be lost! Read through the posts here in the forum. Many of the things may go whizzing over your head at first, but some will be people with problems you have, but were never able to articulate or something you never even thought of, but suddenly realize you would like to try. Finally Dr. Geep rocks so hard! Those tutorials have helped me so much and I've only managed to work through a few so far, but have about a dozen more to go. As I've been working with them a tip I can offer is that if you seem to be getting lost on a step, read ahead a page and then come back to the page you were having trouble with, sometimes the answer is just around the bend. Good luck and have a great deal of fun.