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 | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
