Go on - give it a go - I love Apo too - find it much easier to use than UF3 but I keep persevering with UF3 and sometimes the results are well worth the effort. There's loads of stuff I still don't understand in UF3 but it is possible, I think, to produce some pleasing images without knowing everything about it.

We don't cease to play because we grow old, we grow old because we cease to play.