Glad to hear you're using legal stuff! Poser 5 and Poser 6 are about the same difficulty to learn. Poser 6 tends to be more stable and has better lighting options, so if you're going to buy, I'd recommend Poser 6. Poser 6 comes with James (adult male), Jessi (adult female), Ben (boy) and Kate (girl). And you can download the Poser 5 and 4 figures from e-frontier after registering. I've found Poser 6 very good value for money. What can you add to Poser? Just about anything. People, clothes, hair, landscapes, buildings, animals, plants, you name it. Both commercial stuff (you can buy here, at www.daz3d.com, at www.runtimedna.com, and other places) and free - check out the freestuff section here on renderosity, it's VAST. Most clothing and texture sets are for the DAZ people: Victoria 3, Victoria 2, Stephanie Petite, Michael 2 and 3, David, with Victoria 3 being the best supported figure overall. How do you install new content to Poser? Most of the content comes packaged in .zip files, unzip them to your main Poser directory and everything goes where it's supposed to go. I'm not sure if this also works in the trial versions though. And if you want some good tutorials, search for "geep" in the Poser forum. He has written hundreds of easy to follow tutorials, ranging from absolute beginner stuff to very advanced. You'll probably run into more questions while playing with the demo. I'd suggest posting those questions to the Poser forum, there's much more traffic there. THe Poser Technical forum is mostly about the gory details of the inner workings of Poser, about tricks to make it do what it wasn't intended to do. Your questions are more general in character and fit the purpose of the Poser forum better. Have fun, Steven.

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