Quote - Thanks for the welcome all.  Acadia, a specific thank you

You're very welcome.  I haven't been using poser all that long (bought it in spring of 2004), and for the first 6 months I was so frustrated with it that I literally kept uninstalling it every few weeks because I found it so hard to learn.

I'm not the type of person that can learn from trial and error and by fiddling around with a program.  I need a coherent structure to my learning and a rational behind what I'm doing in order to understand.  I asked lots of questions when I started, but because I didn't know what to ask, or how to explain, or the proper terminology, I was only getting bits and pieces of information. I had learned stuff, but couldn't put it together.   The information was like an unbound book that was thrown into the air and the pages allowed to scatter, and then trying to read the story from picking up and reading random pages.  

I was so frustrated that I cried sometimes thinking I was too stupid to learn this program. So I go out of my way to try and explain things thoroughly because I don't wish the frustration I felt , on anyone.

Finally some kind person at Daz got me into ICQ and literally walked me through getting a figure into the Pose room, adding hair, clothing, lighting, pose and finally rendering.  That was my very first render, and it took me 6 months to do it,  LOL  As you can tell I'm a very slow learner when it comes to programs.  :blushing:

Last year I had a walking tour of the material room, a room that totally frustrated me because I just didn't understand all the gizmos in there and what they did.  Now it's my favourite room next to the cloth room.  I use the material room every single time I'm in poser now!

The tutorial by TrekkieGrrl is particularly good because it shows  the absolute basics of making a single figure scene and rendering it. 

Stick with it, and ask all the questions you want and need.  It's a fun program once you get the hang of it.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi