A quick bit of history. All the DAZ figures and products for sale or free are developed to work with Poser. However, several years ago, when Poser changed parent company, there were rumors of it possibly going under. Rather than find themselves making content for a program that might not exist, DAZ decided to make their own software. Poser is still going strong, but DAZ have built a pretty neat little program anyway. It's not as powerful as poser, but a lot of people prefer it's interface, and it have a few things, like low memory use, which make it better in some ways. Like any new program, it'll take a while to catch up with poser (which has been around for about 15 years), but you might like it, and it's certainly worth keeping an eye on as a possible alternative. And of course, it's free, which is a big attraction. In a nutshell, poser and daz studio are alternative apps which do similar things - they allow you to pose figures, build scenes and make renders. You can run them both at the same time with no problems. Since you already have poser, I'd concentrate on learning it first, but as DS is free, you might want to try it anyway and see how you like it. mac