# System Requirements

Noise Ninja is an inherently computing-intensive software application. Generally speaking, the faster your computer and the more memory available, the better Noise Ninja will perform. Below, we describe the minimum and recommended computer configuration for using Noise Ninja.

## Host application

The Noise Ninja plug-in is designed for Adobe Photoshop CS and compatible host applications running on either Macintosh OS X or Microsoft Windows. It is also known to work with Photoshop 6 and 7, Photoshop Elements 2 and 3, and JASC Paint Shop Pro 9. Some features like EXIF-based profile matching and action support might not be available in some hosts. (In general, the full version of Photoshop will enable the most complete functionality in Noise Ninja.)

## Operating system

Noise Ninja runs on the following operating systems:

- Mac OS X 10.2 and later
- Microsoft Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, and XP

## CPU

For Windows, a Pentium-compatible processor is required, and a Pentium III or better processor is highly recommended.

For Macintosh, a G3 processor is the minimum supported, and a G4 or better processor is highly recommended.

Best peformance will be obtained with 1GHz or faster processors. Noise Ninja is particularly optimized to exploit advanced features on the Pentium 4 and G5 processors.

## RAM

Noise Ninja uses on the order of 10 or 20 megabytes of RAM during filtering. This normally should not cause contention with PhotoShop's memory manager, as long as you don't allocate all of your system memory to PhotoShop.

## Hard disk space

The Noise Ninja installation requires less than 50 megabytes of disk space.

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