Lots of tutorials here, and I got a lot of my information by asking questions here in the Poser forum, after all that's what it is here for :) The manual is a pos in my opinion, makes an excellent door stop so don't throw it away too quickly...well, Poser 5 manual was, can't say anything about the P6. Feel free to instant message me if you get stuck or have a question :) I'm not an expert but I've been in your shoes before, Wolf.

I believe the Eastern Dragon poses by DAZ can be found here at Renderosity [both purchase and I think freebies], DAZ3d possibly at PoserPros and Runtimedna. Do a search for Dragon

Thanks Rockadon I'll give it a try. I was thinking it was either ultra easy or so top-secret since I couldn't find any tut's on it. :)

Nice link, useful stuff there but I didn't see anything on what I'm looking for tho :( What I am looking for is lets say make my own textures for Agent Hair by taking the templates and adding "real hair" to it, like all the other merchants out there making textures for hair items do. I just want to learn how to make my own textures so I can quit spending so much money :)

bookmarks?

As far as keeping everything organized, this is what I do and so far it has kept me from going insane, cross-eyed, postal, etc. I noticed really really early how the Runtime folder can get out of control just like weeds in a garden. I went into my runtime folder, selected lets say the library open that up and say I go to "pose" I've consolidated all my poses into a folder labled "poses" inside that I've split them up into Female--Male--Creature poses. Back in the main pose folder I've made a folder named Clothing and one for Hair, one for buildings. Inside those folders I've broken them down accordingly. I'm a fan of DM items so I have a folder strictly for them "DM Buildings...DM Characters". I have a folder strictly for 3DCelebrity figures but its in my "Characters" folder in the Pose main group...so when I've loaded my Figure I'll go to my Pose and if it's a hair or product I'm looking for, I go straight to my hair and then everything related to all hair products I have is in that folder I'll only have to search thru Hair items instead of A-Z. Also the trick is to keep it up, the more you buy the more "weeds" you get and then it's almost like a nightmare if you slack off. Another thing I found helpful is when you backup your Poser downloads I've placed everything in their proper groups, like a disc for characters, clothing, hair etc. After I've downloaded items I've bought or worse yet all those lovely freebies out there [aka the fast growing kind of weeds]I've made folders up and moved my downloads into them based on what they are, "Clothing" "Hair" etc. I've "lost" items that I swear I've loaded but could not find and being able to go straight to the disc that has like just "Characters" has saved me from surfing through 30 plus discs looking for that 1 character texture. Dunno, that's what I do, kind of seems nit-picky but I can't operate properly in Poser when it has been a while since I consolidated my files....As far as knowing where the file exsists hehe when you're become a Poser addict...you'll know what to look for and I've found my method above has saved me precious time. But everyone has their own ways of keeping up with their inventory, so you might come up with something different. That's my 2 kb's worth..

heheh I reckon I'm an instant member of this club. I don't expect to get my copy of P6 until well into next week. Hopefully the donkey they must be using for delivery transport hasn't given out on them.

I have Photoshop Elements 2.0 and I have been able to use some PS brushes. I think the PS CS version I've not been able to use. I also think PS 7.0 is the highest form of brushes I've been able to use in Elements. I'm wondering if Elements 3.0 can use CS brushes? Hope that helps.

I struggled with the Adobe site last night, bound and determined to see what I could get! I spent over 3 hours going through the pages. I was putting things into a download basket and then decided to retrieve them, well apparently you had to use their assistant program and my basket was suppose to take something like 5 minutes to download with the cable connection according to the chart that Adobe provided. I left the PC and cleaned up my kitchen and when I got back 30 min later it was still sitting there doing nothing. So I went in and manually downloaded each brush. I found by hitting the "stop" and then the "Reload" buttons pulled up the page faster on my end then sitting there like a minute waiting for the page to open [I was even reading a book during this so that shows you how long it took the pages to come up]. Sometimes I'm shrinking Adobe down and surfing something else like Renderosity and I'm zooming along so Adobe needs to pick up the pace some, but like I said in another post, no one pays for those brushes so why should Adobe spend money on increasing bandwith to the site? So it was constantly hit the link, stop, reload, back, stop, reload. Repeat. Drove me nuts but I got the brushes that looked good. One can't have enough brushes, so I'm going to check out the other sites recommended :)

Thanks for the tip PD! I'll check it out :)

Thanks I'll check that out. Once you either Conform or Set Parent the hair to the head it should stay with the figure when it's posed? I haven't posed the current figure I'm working on yet, as this is my first attempt in the Hair Room, so I dunno if I might have the same problem. Thanks for the tip :)

Everyone and their uncle must be on Adobe, it just hangs there when you select a topic like "brushes" and then after a minute or two it goes to a blank window and then just sits there. Sometimes if I select stop I get the page. Adobe needs to increase their bandwith perhaps. But then it's the "freebie" section so they don't really care that much about it I suppose.

Is it my imagination or does the Adobe site take forever to go from page to page or even access to the Download folder? I have cable but waiting almost 5 minutes for a page to load is driving me nuts...I feel like I'm on dial up :)

hehe thanks for the reply and your great pic :) I'll check them out.

Thank you, I will try that out :)