The Poser Handbook by Shamms Mortier is somewhat helpful to a little degree, but it's not very well written, and his illustrations aren't really very professionally done. He uses very simplistic images, using the basic Poser figures with the default textures and a low camera focal setting, so the characters he uses are somewhat cartoony and not very photorealistic, but there is some useful info in the book. It is quite over priced for the content. It's almost 600 pages long and I think there's a lot of filler material to increase the size of the book. However, it does come with a companion CD with some useful things on it. Melanie