I downloaded Pengs backyard pool today and was confronted by a big workspace that I'd never never seen before. Went racing for the manual to go on a giant learning curve about enlarging workspace and moving controls around. Double thanks to Peng for his awsome free pool and all the new things I've learned today. Tommy.

Ah - 'tis easy... (sorry - I tend to work big; I reduced the screen size so it would fit most smaller resolutions :) See image above - once you click on the X-Z trans, you can drag the mouse down to pull out, and up to pull into a scene, or left-right to move in those directions. Know that your posing camera will always be centered on the figure you have selected, and will always revolve around it, as opposed to the Dolly camera, which works better (IMHO) for larger scenes.

Oh, just in case I got stupid and assumed the wrong thing (like instead you needed to shrink/enlarge the workspace window, say) - then all you need to is double-click on the resolution numbers in the upper right-hand corner, and set 'em to a size you can live with (I actually shrank the workspace window to 640x480, because that part usually sets at 1024x768 :) If needed, I can shrink it further. /P

Thanks Peng, I've only just started Poser the last fortnight after spending a couple of years with CorelDRAW and CorelXARA. Their big workspace interfaces and zoom capabilities were sorely missed and until reading the PDF manual yesterday I was unaware that I could move screens and controls around while working. My original interest in Poser was only to create posed people and animal silhouettes for use in scrollsaw patterns drawn in Corel 9. Now I've entered a whole new world of creativity and I'm "hooked" after seeing some of the artwork in various galleries here. Ambition so far is to draw some Australian nostalgic scenes based on old photo's from the 1930's, starting with the first one today.
Regards, Tommy.