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Last updated on
Oct 14, 2024
Learn more about Content Credentials and how creators use them to attach attribution and provide context about how their content was created and edited.
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Apply Content Credentials to your photos in a few simple steps.
What are Content Credentials?
Content Credentials are secure metadata that can be attached to digital content to provide information about who created a piece of content and how it was created or edited. They act like a nutrition label for digital content, helping people better understand the origin and history of an image, video, audio file, document, or other digital content.
Content Credentials are based on C2PA, an open standard, which Adobe co-founded. It can help creators receive attribution for their work while providing greater transparency.
How are Content Credentials applied?
Adobe supports two types of Content Credentials experiences:
User-Enabled Content Credentials
In supported Adobe applications, creators can choose to attach more detailed Content Credentials to their work. Applying Content Credentials to an asset can include information such as:
Verified name
Social media accounts
An overview of edits
These Content Credentials help creatives maintain attribution and provide audiences with additional context about the content.
Automatically-Attached Content Credentials
Beginning in August 2026, Adobe automatically attaches Content Credentials to qualifying content that is created or edited using generative AI tools in Adobe applications.
These automatically-attached Content Credentials help provide provenance information associated with the use of generative AI tools and support compliance with applicable generative AI transparency requirements.
When Are Content Credentials added automatically?
Content Credentials are generally attached automatically when qualifying generative AI tools are used to create or edit content in Adobe apps.
Examples include:
Creating an image using a text prompt
Modifying an image using Generative Fill
Expanding an image using Generative Expand
Generating or modifying supported content using generative AI features in Adobe products
How to use Content Credentials in Adobe Lightroom?
Note
Content Credentials are supported only in JPEG file format.
Select > Custom Settings, and then select the Apply Content Credentials option.
To change the information included in the Content Credential settings, select About Lightroom > Preferences > Export and make changes to the following information:
- Storage method: Select your desired method from the available options. The options include Publish to Content Credentials cloud, Attach to files, and Attach and publish to cloud.
- Producer: Select this to include your name. If you wish to change this information, select Manage.
- Connected accounts: Selected the connected social media accounts. If you haven't linked them yet, select Manage.
- Edits and activity: Select this to include all the information about the editing history.
- Apply Content Credentials: Select this to include content credentials when you export a photos with export shortcuts.
All the Storage method options except Don't include have Producer, Connected accounts, and Edit and activity checkboxes.
Select Export to export the photo with the attached Content Credentials. You can also export multiple photos together with attached Content Credentials by selecting them in the Grid and then selecting .
Once the content credentials are uploaded, you can check them on Adobe Inspect.
Where do Content Credentials go when exporting or adding photos to a shared album?
When you’re ready to export your photos from Lightroom or add them to a shared album, the Apply Content Credentials option will appear in the Export or Add to Shared Album dialog. Select it to include Content Credentials with your content.
Content Credentials can be:
- Published to Content Credentials Cloud: This is separate from the cloud file storage included in your Adobe plan. This makes Content Credentials persistent and recoverable and keeps files smaller but less private — Content Credentials published to the cloud may appear in results when people search for content that matches or closely resembles your own.
- Attach to files: This embeds the information in the exported file.
- Attach and publish to cloud: This gives you the benefit of both the methods mentioned earlier.
You can also choose not to include Content Credentials with your Lightroom photos.
Will Content Credentials data be lost if you edit Lightroom photos in Photoshop?
Currently, using the Edit in Photoshop option in Lightroom to edit photos across Lightroom and Photoshop isn't supported by Content Credentials. To preserve the Content Credentials information of photos you want to edit across both Lightroom and Photoshop, follow these steps:
Export the image from Lightroom with Content Credentials after making any desired changes
Open the image in Photoshop and turn on Content Credentials before making changes.
Once desired changes have been made in Photoshop, select File > Export > Export As with Content Credentials.
If you want to make further changes in Lightroom, you must import the file exported from Photoshop in the previous step back into Lightroom to preserve its Content Credentials information.
You can turn Content Credentials on or off for an individual Photoshop document by right-clicking or option-clicking its tab. If Content Credentials is turned off or encounters issues during editing, your image's Content Credentials will note that some edits and activity may not have been recorded.
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