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Installation

To install Genuine Fractals, double-click the installer. You may have downloaded it from the onOne Software web site or if you have the boxed version you can find it on the provided DVD.

Macintosh

The installer installs all necessary files into all supported versions of Photoshop or optional hosts.
If more than one copy of the same version of Photoshop is found, Genuine Fractals 6.0 will be installed in all of them.
Genuine Fractals 6.0 is installed into the “Plug-Ins” folder inside of the /Applications/Adobe Photoshop/ directory. (Photoshop Only sub-folder for Photoshop CS2)
The Lightroom plug-in is installed into /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules
The Aperture plug-in is installed into /Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-ins
The Preferences files are created in the installing user’s Library/Preferences/ directory.
Support files are installed into /Library/Application Support/onOne Software/
Any additional files, as well as spare copies of the plug-ins will be installed in your Applications directory

Windows XP

If the installer detects multiple versions of Photoshop it will ask which version it should be installed into.
The installer may be run multiple times to install Genuine Fractals 6.0 into multiple versions of Photoshop.
If the installer does not automatically detect the desired version of Photoshop it will allow the user to browse to their plug-in folder manually.
The installer detect Lightroom and automatically install its plug-in if present.
Genuine Fractals is installed into the “Plug-Ins” folder inside of the \Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop folder. (Photoshop Only sub-folder for Photoshop CS2).
The Lightroom plug-in is installed into \Documents & Settings\All Users\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules.
The Preferences files are created in \Documents & Settings\[user]\Application Data\onOne Software\Genuine Fractals folder.
Support files are installed into \Documents & Settings\All Users\Application Data\onOne Software\Genuine Fractals folder.
Any additional files, as well as spare copies of the plug-ins will be installed into your Program Files directory.

Windows Vista

If the installer detects multiple versions of Photoshop it will ask which version it should be installed into.
The installer may be run multiple times to install Genuine Fractals 6.0 into multiple versions of Photoshop.
If the installer does not automatically detect the desired version of Photoshop it will allow the user to browse to their plug-in folder manually.
The installer will detect Lightroom and automatically install its plug-in if present.
Genuine Fractals is installed into the “Plug-Ins” folder inside of the \Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop folder. (Photoshop Only sub-folder for Photoshop CS2)
The Lightroom Plug-in will be installed into \ProgramData\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules
The Preferences files are created in \Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\onOne Software\Genuine Fractals folder.
Support files are installed into \ProgramData\onOne Software\Genuine Fractals
Any additional files, as well as spare copies of the plug-ins will be installed into your Program Files directory