Those programs are windoze ports. And as such, navigate like windoze
programs. To quit one of them, look for the "boxed x" in the top right
hand size of the rectangular window that shows up. Click on it and the
program should quit. Alternatively, control q will quit as well.
Jerry
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 10:17 AM, Alex Whitman wrote:
> My Epson scanner came with Arcsoft Photoimpression, which I installed
> under 10.2.2. The first time I fired it up, it took over the entire
> screen -- no top menu bar, no dock, and no apparent way out. In
> frustration (and maybe a little panic), I shut down the Mac and
> restarted. The Photoimpression icon stayed on the desktop, and I
> carefully avoided it until some future day when I planned to be better
> prepared to take it for a test drive. I've been using iPhoto ever
> since, although its photo manipulation capabilities are limited at
> best.
>
> I have since upgraded to 10.2.4. Last night a Windows-using friend
> came over and wanted to see what Macs are all about. Before I could
> say, "Don't click PhotoImpression," Photoimpression was clicked and
> once again took over. I thought perhaps the OS upgrade would make a
> difference, but there is still no avenue to help from the screen, and
> no combination of keyboard keys would make it go away. Once again,
> after an hour of looking for a way to quit, I ended up shutting down,
> pulling the plug, and successfully (whew!) rebooting this morning.
>
> Obviously PhotoImpression is Evil. I just dragged its icon to the
> trash, then went into finder and dragged it to the trash from there
> too. Is it really gone now?
>
> Also, what affordable, more user-friendly photo retouching software do
> people like?
>
> Alex Whitman
> alylex at earthlink.net
>
>
>
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