[QUOTE] I did not know that brush capabilities were disabled in LR.[/QUOTE] Try it for yourself, you do have LR don't you? Select an image in LR & make whatever adjustments, crop, etc. in LR. Then right click (alt/option click) on the image in LR and from the pop-up menu select one of the NIK Apps from "Edit In". When the App window opens you will note that the "Brush" button on the bottom right is missing. However, the control points work fine. This is due to the fact you don't have adjustment layers in LR, hence using LR in combination with CS5/6.