By complementary, I didn't expect full interchangeability, but am trying to learn what Studio does better to make it worth investing some time in learning. Photoshop and Painter are similar applications that both allow painting and image editing. It's well worth having and learning both programs because each have their individual strengths. I'm reading some things that start leaning me towards taking time to learn DAZ Studio, but don't like not having a means to go back to Poser. Studio isn't as feature rich as Poser (nor should anybody expect it to be at release 1.0). By not letting me go back to Poser, playing with Studio will be a one-way street. That's not very good where I'm more comfortable with using Poser. I hope Studio eventually offers that compatibility because I could see going back and forth between programs where there are different strengths and different comfort levels. I regularly do that with Painter and Photoshop and probably lean more on Painter because I bought it first and learned it better, though have taken the time to become more comfortable with Photoshop. Not being able to take what I've done in Studio back into Poser is a bit of a deal breaker right there. I had expected that functionality to be added in the final release. How does Power Pose differ from dragging figure parts in Poser? One of the things I don't like about dragging on the screen with Poser is that unexpected translations start occurring in a different axis than I'm moving. Translations ought to be limited to the X-Y dimensions in my view. Poser starts making odd movements in the Z direction that makes dragging more often a pain than not. I've given up trying to drag objects to where I want them in Poser because of those unwanted translations. It's safer using the dials to move objects in a scene and not have to worry about changes in axes that I didn't want made.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon