I need to just sit down and clunk myself against Ktisis until it clicks. not knowing how to operate it is the main thing holding me back from unleashing FFXIV's full potential as a dressup game
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in reply to @bazelgeuse-apologist's post:
I’ll admit that the reason why I know Ktisis at all is bc I spent a good long time with Anamnesis, and Ktisis is heavily inspired by it. Granted, Anamnesis has more tools (that chirp is planning to add in v.03 alongside much more that Anam can’t do) but I do like how Ktisis lets you control directly on
the character instead of in the program itself. Perk of it being on Dalamud vs being a separate software like anam, ig. It also has a lot more you can do with the camera, like how the delimit function lets you take the camera wherever you want. Point is, practicing will certainly help, but there are also tutorials and people who can most certainly help around.
My biggest issue with Ktisis so far is that I struggle to see what I'm doing underneath all of the lines, and that sometimes stuff doesn't seem to move at all, which makes me wonder if I'm going about it the wrong way. Like, there HAS to be a reason why a bunch of folks like it over Anam! I definitely need to browse some tutorials too.
Oh yeah, there can def be a lot of lines. Good news with the current ktisis version is that there’s a menu you can use to focus it so you can have only the body parts you need to work on show any lines. You also have to make sure time is frozen in the in-game gpose menu, then toggle posing mode at the top right hand corner. of the ktisis menu to make sure body parts move. The red circle generally rotates things (depends on the part), the green circle generally moves body parts left and right (depends on where the body part is aimed) and blue generally moves body parts up and down (same deal as green) Overall, I use anam and ktisis in tandem bc ktisis doesn’t allow me to change outfits like anam does and ktisis also doesn’t allow me to shift charavter positions without posing mode on like anam does. There’s also better animation control in anam. Sorry this is long, I like talking posing.
Sorry this is long, I like talking posing.
Honestly??? This is the content I come to Cohost for, just people talking at length about their very specific hobbies. 
You're good, and thank you for the tips!