Photoshop CC and Nik HDR Efex

Hiya everyone, I'm new to PS CC so finding some of the things I do are not working so well
I use Nik HDREfex a lot. I do my tonemapping in HDREfex and then save my file as 32bit TIFF so I can later open and save as 8 bit JPG, but now (with PS CC) when I go to save the file as 8bit JPG, PS CC wants to tonemap my image even though I have already tonemapped it. How do you get around this?

Thank you I will try that , my pc can not handle photoshp cs 6 and the CC version would like to take the CS6 version off but before i do that Iwant to make sure Nik Software will work with the CC version Love my nik software

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