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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 565276" data-attributes="member: 13090">Okay, now that I'm working on my home computer and having read the Adobe forums relating to this issue, I see where all the confusion is stemming from. Here's what I did:I opened a raw file, made some quick adjustments in ACR and then invoked Photoshop.I opened my Filter menu, selected NIK Tools and then selected one of the presets. In this case I chose the Tonal Contrast filter and when the filter opened clicked on the &quot;Brush&quot; button.My file then opened in Photoshop with a duplicate layer/black layer-mask created (as I would expect).A new dialog box from NIK Tools hovers over my image with four buttons at the bottom: Paint, Erase, Fill and Clear. I select &quot;Paint&quot; and Photoshop's Brush Tool is automatically invoked.I then &quot;painted&quot; the selection I wanted with the Brush Tool which, of course, selectively applied the Tonal Contrast filter and then... And this, I think, is the critical thing... A NIK Tools dialog box popped up saying, &quot;You are in the selective editing mode. Click 'Discard' or 'Apply' to return to Photoshop's normal functionality.&quot; That's NOT an error message; it's just an instructional dialog box. It's also what appears to be driving people nutty over on the Adobe Support forums.I clicked on &quot;OK&quot; to exit the dialog box (about being in selective editing mode), then clicked &quot;Apply&quot; in the NIK Tools dialog-box and... Voila! The Tonal Contrast filter has been applied, selectively, and I'm pretty much done. I'm now back to plain-vanilla Photoshop with the edits I wanted brushed onto the image on a layer mask.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 565276, member: 13090"] Okay, now that I'm working on my home computer and having read the Adobe forums relating to this issue, I see where all the confusion is stemming from. Here's what I did: I opened a raw file, made some quick adjustments in ACR and then invoked Photoshop. I opened my Filter menu, selected NIK Tools and then selected one of the presets. In this case I chose the Tonal Contrast filter and when the filter opened clicked on the "Brush" button. My file then opened in Photoshop with a duplicate layer/black layer-mask created (as I would expect). A new dialog box from NIK Tools hovers over my image with four buttons at the bottom: [B]Paint[/B], [B]Erase[/B], [B]Fill [/B]and [B]Clear[/B]. I select "Paint" and Photoshop's Brush Tool is automatically invoked. I then "painted" the selection I wanted with the Brush Tool which, of course, selectively applied the Tonal Contrast filter and then... And this, I think, is the critical thing... A NIK Tools dialog box popped up saying, [I][B]"You are in the selective editing mode. Click 'Discard' or 'Apply' to return to Photoshop's normal functionality." [/B][/I] That's [B]NOT[/B] an error message; it's just an instructional dialog box. It's also what appears to be driving people nutty over on the Adobe Support forums. I clicked on "OK" to exit the dialog box (about being in selective editing mode), then clicked "Apply" in the NIK Tools dialog-box and... [I]Voila[/I]! The Tonal Contrast filter has been applied, selectively, and I'm pretty much done. I'm now back to plain-vanilla Photoshop with the edits I wanted brushed onto the image on a layer mask. [/QUOTE]

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