The short answer is, "Yes." I'm a newbie too--6 months in--and before Poser I'd always considered myself to be fairly intelligent--LOL!! It IS learnable, I promise you. It's just that it's very complex, a world of it's own, and you have to be highly motivated to learn it. More times than I care to recall, I've been on the point of tears trying to get clothes on or to pose a figure right. We all know what you're going through, believe me. Between the Manual and printing out and reading the tutorials over and over and asking silly newby questions, my images are finally coming together. My advice would be to put the clothes issue on the back burner for now and work on posing and creating characters with the dials. Go to Digital Babes (see Webring list below on right) for some really nice hair for them. It's similar to clothes to attach, but less complex. Get WinZIP (or Maconverter or Macinstaller if you're working on a Mac). Go ahead and search out all the props, clothing, etc for your project and download them into a 'goodies' folder for now....Soon the file structure will begin to make sense. Use the Search here in the Forum to read over all the other new user's questions--that alone will save you a lot of time and frustration. This is a community of very kind and patient folks, and without them I would have chucked my first free magazine cover disk of Poser into the Pacific long ago! Just hang in there. And remember--Poser newbie-ness is NOT for the weak!