John, the points are all valid. However... (yeah, you knew that was coming, didn't you...) Let's face it: this is a tough program for the newbie. It's not like Bryce, where you can go a long way on a little information. Poser requires a more in-depth awareness of how to shape the human body to convey something -- like, look at your hands. Fifteen pieces each, and if you want to make your hands really suggestive, you have to work with all fifteen of those pieces. For some people, yeah, no big deal. But Poser 4 was my return to this program after giving up on Poser 1, and I was completely freaked for months. And I can still remember the thrill of putting my first image up in the gallery, even though now I look at it (and don't try; it's gone from the gallery here) and laugh at how naive it was. So yeah, there's a lot of flavour of the month in there, but let's be kind to the newbies on that issue. If you want to take a shot at someone, look at the folks who have hundreds of entries in their galleries, representing a span of a couple of years, and not one whit of difference from the first image to the most recent. No development. No stylistic change. They might as well be cranking out oil paintings like the guy on PBS with the big hair.