# First run

URL: https://fulla.dppst.com/docs/first-run/

> Connect Fulla to an AI service the first time you open it, with OpenRouter in a few clicks or with your own Google or OpenAI key.

The first time you open **Plugins > Fulla**, the panel opens on its **Providers** tab: Fulla needs an account with an AI service to make images. You have two choices.

## Connect with OpenRouter (recommended)

OpenRouter gives you every model Fulla offers with one account, and there is no key to create or paste.

1. Click **Connect with OpenRouter**. Photoshop asks for permission: "The plugin Fulla wants to open" an openrouter.ai address. Click **Allow** (tick **Remember my choice** if you don't want to be asked again). The browser window may open behind Photoshop.
2. On openrouter.ai, sign in or create an account. You can set a spending limit and an expiry date for the key there.
3. Click **Authorize**. OpenRouter shows a code.
4. Paste that code into the panel. OpenRouter's page says "terminal": it means the panel.

A new OpenRouter account needs credits before its first image. The panel says so and links the page where you add them; $5 is about 100 images.

If, after creating your account, you don't land on the page with the **Authorize** button, go back to the panel and click **Open the page again**. You are signed in by then, so it goes straight there.

## Use a Google or OpenAI key

Already have a key? Choose **Add a key**, pick Google (Gemini API) or OpenAI, and paste it. The button next to the field opens the page where the key is created. Fulla checks the key with a free request before saving it. See [Providers](https://fulla.dppst.com/docs/providers/) for what each service needs.

## Where your key is kept

Keys stay on your computer, in Photoshop's secure storage, and go only to their provider. **Test** checks a saved key again; **Remove** deletes it. More in [Privacy and security](https://fulla.dppst.com/docs/privacy/).

## Next step

[Make your first fill](https://fulla.dppst.com/docs/generative-fill/).